Joseph Brevard

Joseph Brevard (born July 19, 1766 in Iredell , Iredell County , Province of North Carolina , †  October 11, 1821 in Camden , South Carolina ) was an American politician . Between 1819 and 1821 he represented the state of South Carolina in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Despite his youth, Joseph Brevard took part in the final phase of the War of Independence as a soldier in the Continental Army . In 1782 he became a lieutenant in a unit from North Carolina. After the war he moved to Camden, South Carolina. There he was between 1789 and 1791 as sheriff head of the police department. After a subsequent law degree and his admission to the bar in 1792, he began to work in Camden in his new profession. Between 1793 and 1815 he was involved in the compilation of the laws of the state of South Carolina. Between 1796 and 1799 he was a member of the House of Representatives from South Carolina . From 1801 to 1815 he served as a judge on the Supreme Court of his state. He resigned from this post in December 1815. Then he worked again as a private lawyer.

Brevard was a member of the Democratic Republican Party . In the congressional elections of 1818 he was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the ninth constituency of South Carolina , where he succeeded Stephen Decatur Miller on March 4, 1819 . Since he refused to run again in 1820, Brevard was only able to complete one legislative period in Congress until March 3, 1821 . In 1821 he ran unsuccessfully in a congressional by-election. He died in October of the same year and was buried in Camden.

Web links

• Joseph Brevard in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)
• Joseph Brevard in the database of Find a Grave (English)