Joshua S. Salmon (February 2, 1846 in
Mount Olive Township, New Jersey
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) was an American
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politician who represented from 1899 to 1902.
Biography
Salmon was born in
Mount Olive Township, New Jersey
Mount Olive Township is a township in Morris County, New Jersey, United States. As of the 2010 United States Census, the township's population was 28,117,[Charlotteville Seminary The New York Conference Seminary in Charlotteville, Schoharie County, New York, also known as Charlotteville Seminary, was a school operated under the auspices of the New York Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church. It was founded in 1850 with ...]
(in
Summit, New York
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) and at Schooley's Mountain Seminary (in
), where he afterward became an instructor. He graduated from the
Albany Law School
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in 1873, was admitted to the New York bar in 1873, to the New Jersey bar in 1875, and commenced practice in
Jersey City, New Jersey
Jersey City is the second-most populous city in the U.S. state of New Jersey, after Newark.[Boonton
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, and practiced there and in
. He held several county offices in
Morris County. He was a member of the
New Jersey General Assembly
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in 1877 and 1878, and was prosecuting attorney of Morris County from 1893 to 1898. He was a delegate to the
1900 Democratic National Convention
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The convention nominated William Jennings Bryan for president an ...
.
Salmon was elected as a Democrat to the
Fifty-sixth and
Fifty-seventh Congresses and served in office from March 4, 1899, until his death in Boonton on May 6, 1902. He was interred in Boonton's
Greenwood Cemetery.
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External links
Joshua S. Salmonat
The Political Graveyard
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1846 births
1902 deaths
Albany Law School alumni
Democratic Party members of the United States House of Representatives from New Jersey
New Jersey lawyers
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People from Boonton, New Jersey
People from Mount Olive Township, New Jersey
Politicians from Morris County, New Jersey
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Burials in New Jersey
19th-century American politicians