Joseph E. Edsall (March 29, 1789, in

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, who represented in the

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from 1845 to 1847, and the from 1847 to 1849.

Biography

Edsall was born in Rudeville, near

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, was a member of the New Jersey General Assembly, and served as judge of the Court of Common Pleas. Edsall was elected as a Democrat to the Twenty-ninth and Thirtieth Congresses, serving in office from March 4, 1845, to March 3, 1849. He died in Hamburg in 1865, and was interred there in the Baptist Burying Ground.

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