Joseph W. Chalmers

This article explains the politician Joseph W. Chalmers; for the Scottish soccer player Joseph Chalmers see Joe Chalmers .

Joseph Williams Chalmers (born December 20, 1806 in Halifax County , Virginia , †  June 16, 1853 in Holly Springs , Mississippi ) was an American lawyer and politician ( Democratic Party ) who represented the state of Mississippi in the US Senate .

Career

Joseph Chalmers embarked on a legal career after completing his schooling. He studied law both at the University of Virginia at Charlottesville and in private practice with a lawyer in Richmond . After being accepted into the bar, he first practiced his profession from 1835 in Jackson ( Tennessee ), and later also in Holly Springs in the state of Mississippi. He practiced alternately in both places.

From 1842 to 1843, Chalmers was then deputy chancellor with responsibility for equity law in the northern judicial district of Mississippi. His brief political career began with the appointment of US Senator Robert J. Walker as Treasury Secretary of the United States ; on November 3, 1845 he became Walker's successor in Washington . Chalmers also decided the by-election for himself, so that he remained in the Senate until March 3, 1847. During this time he was among other things chairman of the Committee on Engrossed Bills .

As a result, he worked again as a lawyer in Holly Springs, where he died in 1853. His son James was Brigadier General of the Confederate Army in the Civil War and sat for Mississippi in the US House of Representatives from 1877 to 1884 .

Web links

• Joseph W. Chalmers in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Joseph W. Chalmers in the database of Find a Grave (English)