Joshua Seney

Joshua Seney (* March 4, 1756 in Church Hill, Queen Anne's County, Maryland, † October 20, 1798 ) was an American politician. Between 1789 and 1792, he represented the state of Maryland in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Joshua Seney attended the common schools and then studied until 1773 at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. After studying law and qualifying as a lawyer, he began to work in this profession. While his father served as a lieutenant colonel in the Revolutionary War, he managed the family-owned farm. In 1779 he was appointed chief of police in Queen Anne's County. In the 1780s Seney struck a political career. From 1795 to 1787 he sat in the House of Representatives from Maryland; In 1788 he was appointed to the Continental Congress. Politically, he was in opposition to the first formed by President George Washington Federal Government (Anti - Administration Group ).

In the congressional elections of 1789 Seney was elected in the second district of Maryland in the time which meets even in New York U.S. House of Representatives, where he took up his new mandate on March 4, 1789. After a re-election, he could remain until his resignation on December 6, 1792 in Congress. Due to its Demisson was his appointment as the presiding judge for the third judicial district of Maryland. Seney exercised his judicial office 1792-1796. In 1798 he successfully applied for his return to the Congress. He died in on October 20 this year and was thus his mandate on March 4, 1799 do not show up.