Joseph Powell (June 23, 1828 – April 24, 1904) was a Democratic member of the

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from

Pennsylvania Pennsylvania (; ( Pennsylvania Dutch: )), officially the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, is a state spanning the Mid-Atlantic, Northeastern, Appalachian, and Great Lakes regions of the United States. It borders Delaware to its southeast, ...

. Joseph Powell was born in

Towanda, Pennsylvania Towanda is a borough and the county seat of Bradford County in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania. It is part of Northeastern Pennsylvania and is located northwest of Wilkes-Barre, on the Susquehanna River. The name means "burial ground" in the Algon ...

. He completed preparatory studies and engaged in mercantile pursuits. He was president of the First National Bank of Towanda from 1870 to 1889. Powell was elected as a Democrat to the Forty-fourth Congress. He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in

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. He was appointed special deputy collector of the port of

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in 1885 and served four years. He was

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Bradford County, Pennsylvania Bradford County is a county in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. It is part of Northeastern Pennsylvania. As of the 2020 census, its population was 59,967. Its county seat is Towanda. The county was created on February 21, 1810, from parts o ...

, from 1889 to 1893. He died in Towanda in 1904, and was interred in Oak Hill Cemetery.

Sources

The Political Graveyard

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* 1828 births 1904 deaths People from Towanda, Pennsylvania Pennsylvania sheriffs Democratic Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Pennsylvania 19th-century American legislators {{Pennsylvania-Representative-stub