Joseph Henderson (Pennsylvania)

Joseph Henderson
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from Pennsylvania's 14th district
In office
March 4, 1833  March 3, 1837
Preceded by Andrew Stewart
Succeeded by William Wilson Potter
Personal details
Born (1791-08-02)August 2, 1791
Shippensburg, Pennsylvania
Died December 25, 1863(1863-12-25) (aged 72)
Lewistown, Pennsylvania
Political party Jacksonian
Alma mater Jefferson Medical College
Military service
Allegiance  United States
Service/branch United States Army
Rank Major (brevetted)
Battles/wars War of 1812

Joseph Henderson (August 2, 1791 – December 25, 1863) was a Jacksonian member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.

Biography

Joseph Henderson was born in Shippensburg, Pennsylvania. He moved with his parents to Centre County, Pennsylvania, in 1802. He attended the public schools and graduated from the Jefferson Medical College at Philadelphia in 1813. During the War of 1812, he was commissioned first lieutenant in the Twenty-second Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteers, in the spring of 1813. He was promoted to captain in the fall of the same year. He was then brevetted major and given command of a regiment in 1814. He settled at Browns Mills, Pennsylvania, at the close of the war and engaged in the practice of medicine.

Henderson was elected as a Jacksonian to the Twenty-third and Twenty-fourth Congresses. He was not a candidate for renomination in 1836. He moved to Lewistown, Pennsylvania, in 1850 and continued the practice of medicine. He died in Lewistown in 1863. Interment in St. Mark’s Cemetery.

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United States House of Representatives
Preceded by
Andrew Stewart
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from Pennsylvania's 14th congressional district

1833–1837
Succeeded by
William Wilson Potter


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