Joseph McIlvaine

Joseph McIlvaine

Joseph McIlvaine (born October 2, 1769 in Bristol , Bucks County , Province of Pennsylvania , †  August 19, 1826 in Burlington , New Jersey ) was an American politician ( Democratic Republican Party ) who represented the state of New Jersey in the US Senate represented.

After graduating from high school and studying law , Joseph McIlvaine was inducted into the New Jersey Bar in 1790 and began practicing in Burlington the following year. In 1793 he married Maria Reed, the niece of Joseph Reed , the former president of Pennsylvania. The marriage had three children; their son Charles , born in 1799 , later became a clergyman of the Episcopal Church and Bishop of Ohio . From 1796 to 1800 Joseph McIlvaine was a senior clerk in Burlington County , then he worked until 1823 as a clerk in the county court and from 1804 to 1820 in the successor of William S. Pennington as a federal attorney for the district of New Jersey. In 1818 he was appointed a judge at the Superior Court of New Jersey ( Superior court ), but resigned from the office.

On November 12, 1823, McIlvaine entered the United States Senate, where he took the seat that had remained vacant since Samuel L. Southard's resignation in March of that year. He was one of the supporters of Henry Clay and John Quincy Adams within the Democratic Republican Party , which later became the National Republican Party . He died in Burlington in August 1826.

Web links

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

• Joseph McIlvaine in the database of Find a Grave (English)