Joseph M. Root

Joseph M. Root

Joseph Mosley Root (born October 7, 1807 in Brutus , Cayuga County , New York , † April 7, 1879 in Sandusky , Ohio ) was an American politician of the United States Whig Party and the Free Soil Party . From 1845 to 1851 he was a member of the House of Representatives of the United States for 21  congressional districts of the State of Ohio.

biography

Joseph Root was born in Brutus and attended public schools there. He studied law in Auburn . In 1829 he moved to Ohio. There he was admitted to the bar in 1830 and practiced from then on in a law firm in Norwalk . In 1837 he was elected Huron County District Attorney . In the Ohio Senate Root sat from 1840 to 1841.

As a representative of the Whig Party, he was elected to the US House of Representatives in 1844 . In 1846 he was re-elected. In the 1848 congressional elections , Root ran as a candidate for the Free Soil Party and was re-elected to the House of Representatives. In the period from 1847 to 1849 he was chairman (chairman) of today's Committee on Oversight an Government Reform . In 1851 he left the House of Representatives. In the aftermath of the presidential election in 1860 , he was a member of the electoral college as a representative of the Republican Party . He was appointed United States Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio in 1861. In 1869 he was again a member of the Ohio Senate.

Joseph Root died in Sandusky in 1879 . He was buried there in Oakland Cemetery.

Web links

• Joseph M. Root in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Joseph M. root in the database of Find a Grave (English)