Joel Buchanan Danner (1804 – July 29, 1885) was a Democratic member of the

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from

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. Joel B. Danner was born in

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. He engaged in the hardware business and carriage building at

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. He also served as justice of the peace. Danner was elected as a Democrat to the Thirty-first Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Henry Nes. He resumed his former business pursuits in Gettysburg, where he died in 1885. Interment in Evergreen Cemetery.

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1804 births 1885 deaths People from Gettysburg, Pennsylvania Burials at Evergreen Cemetery (Adams County, Pennsylvania) Democratic Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Pennsylvania 19th-century American politicians {{Pennsylvania-Representative-stub