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Joseph Henry Kuhns (September 1800November 16, 1883) was a Whig member of the
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from
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.


Biography

Joseph H. Kuhns born near
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. He graduated from Washington College (later
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) in
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, in 1820. He studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1823 and commenced practice in Greensburg. Kuhns was elected as a Whig to the Thirty-second Congress. He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in
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. He resumed the practice of law in Greensburg and died there in 1883. Interment in St. Clair Cemetery.


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1800 births 1883 deaths Washington & Jefferson College alumni Pennsylvania lawyers Whig Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Pennsylvania 19th-century American legislators 19th-century American lawyers {{Pennsylvania-Representative-stub