Joseph Biles Anthony
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This article is about the U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania. For the American playwright and director, see Joseph Anthony.
Joseph Biles Anthony (June 19, 1795 - January 10, 1851) was a Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.
Joseph Biles Anthony was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He studied law, was admitted to the bar and practiced. He was a member of the Pennsylvania State Senate from 1830 to 1833.
Anthony was elected as a Jacksonian to the Twenty-third and Twenty-fourth Congresses. He was appointed judge of the ‘Nichelson court’, and engaged in the sale of titles to large tracts of lands in Pennsylvania. He was elected president judge of the eighth district in 1844 and served until his death in Williamsport, Pennsylvania. Interment in Williamsport Cemetery.
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- Joseph Biles Anthony at the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress
- The Political Graveyard
| Preceded by Harmar Denny John Gilmore |
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania's 16th congressional district 1833 - 1837 |
Succeeded by Robert Hanna Hammond |
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