Joseph W. McCorkle

Joseph Walker McCorkle (* June 24, 1819 in Piqua, Ohio, † March 18, 1884 in Branchville, Maryland ) was an American politician. Between 1851 and 1853 he represented the state of California in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Joseph McCorkle attended the public schools of his home and then the Kenyon College in Gambier. After a subsequent study of law and its made ​​in 1842 admitted to the bar he began working in Dayton in this profession. From 1845 to 1849 he was there and post holder. In 1849 he moved during the Gold Rush to San Francisco in California. There, he competed unsuccessfully in 1850 for the post of a judge. At the same time he proposed as a member of the Democratic Party launched a political career. In the meantime, he sat as a deputy in the California State Assembly.

In the congressional elections of 1850 McCorkle was in the second electoral district of California in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Edward Gilbert on March 4, 1851. Since he was not nominated by his party for re-election in 1852, he was able to complete only one term in Congress until March 3, 1853. This was marked by the debate over slavery.

After the end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives McCorkle moved to Marysville. From 1853 to 1857 he was a judge in the ninth judicial district of his state. In 1855 he ran unsuccessfully for the U.S. Senate. He then practiced as a lawyer in San Francisco. Between 1860 and 1870 he lived in Virginia City (Nevada ). There he worked as a lawyer. He then returned to Washington, where he worked as a lawyer for the Mexican Claims Commission. He died on 18 March 1884 in Branchville and was buried in his birthplace of Piqua.