Joseph Marion Hernández

Joseph Marion Hernández

Joseph Marion Hernández (actually José Mariano Hernández , born May 26, 1788 in St. Augustine , Florida , †  June 8, 1857 in Matanzas , Cuba ) was an American politician . Between 1822 and 1823 he represented the Florida Territory as a delegate in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Joseph Hernández was born in 1788 in St. Augustine in the then Spanish colony of Florida . After the transition of the Spanish colony to the United States and the establishment of the Florida Territory, he began a political career there. In 1822, he was elected the new Territory's first congressional delegate to Congress in Washington, DC . There he represented the interests of his homeland until March 3, 1823. In the regular congressional elections of 1822 he was not confirmed. In 1824 another candidacy for his return to Congress failed.

From 1824 to 1825, Hernández was a member and president of the Florida Territorial House of Representatives. He was also appointed brigadier general of the militia. In this capacity he fought against the Florida-based Indians . Between 1835 and 1838 he was an officer in the US Army . In 1837 he led an expedition that took chief Osceola prisoner. Politically, Hernández joined the Whig Party in the 1830s . In 1845 he applied as their candidate for a seat in the US Senate , but was defeated by David Levy Yulee . He then moved to the Matanzas province in Cuba, where he operated a sugar plantation as a planter. He died there on June 8, 1857.

Web links

• Joseph Marion Hernández in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)