Joshua S. Salmon

Joshua S. Salmon, 1903

Joshua S. Salmon (born February 2, 1846 in Mount Olive , Morris County , New Jersey , †  May 6, 1902 in Boonton , New Jersey) was an American politician . Between 1899 and 1902 he represented the state of New Jersey in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Joshua Salmon attended public schools in Bartley , where he had moved with his parents when he was a child. He then worked as a teacher himself for two years before continuing his education at Charlotteville Seminary in New York and Schooley's Mountain Seminary in New Jersey. At the latter school he worked again as a teacher for some time. After a subsequent law degree at the Albany Law School in New York State and his admission as a lawyer in 1873, he began to work in Jersey City in 1875 in this profession. He later moved his office and residence to Boonton. He practiced as a lawyer there and in neighboring Morristown .

At the same time, Salmon began a political career as a member of the Democratic Party . As a result, he held various local offices in the district administration. In 1877 and 1878 he was a member of the New Jersey General Assembly . From 1893 to 1998 he served as a prosecutor in Morris County. In 1900 he was a delegate to the Democratic National Convention in Kansas City , where William Jennings Bryan was nominated for the second time as a presidential candidate.

In the congressional election of 1898 Salmon was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC , in the fourth constituency of New Jersey , where he succeeded Mahlon Pitney on March 4, 1899 . After being re-elected, he could remain in Congress until his death on May 6, 1902 . After a special election, his mandate fell to De Witt C. Flanagan .

Web links

• Joshua S. Salmon in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Joshua S. Salmon in the database of Find a Grave (English)