Joshua Evans, Jr.

Joshua Evans, Jr. ( born January 20, 1777 Paoli, Pennsylvania, † October 2, 1846 ) was an American politician. Between 1829 and 1833 he represented the State of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Joshua Evans attended the public schools of his home and worked as a hotelier and agriculture. In 1820 he was elected to the House of Representatives from Pennsylvania. Between 1826 and 1830 he was postmaster in Paoli. In the 1820s he joined the movement to the future President Andrew Jackson and became a member of the Democratic Party, founded in 1828 by this.

In the congressional elections of 1828 Evans was in the fourth electoral district of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Samuel Anderson on March 4, 1829. After a re-election he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1833 two legislative sessions. Since the inauguration of President Jackson in 1829, was discussed inside and outside of Congress vehemently about its policy. It was about the controversial enforcement of the Indian Removal Act, the conflict with the State of South Carolina, which culminated in the Nullifikationskrise, and banking policy of the President.

In 1832, Evans gave up another candidacy. After his time in the U.S. House of Representatives, he resumed his previous activities on again. From 1836 to 1846 he was also a member of the school board in Tredyffrin. He was also a brigadier general of state militia. Joshua Evans died on October 2, 1846 in his hometown of Paoli and was buried in New Centerville.