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Joseph Biles Anthony

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Party
  
Democratic Party

Role
  
U.S. representative


Name
  
Joseph Anthony

Political party
  
Democratic

Resigned
  
March 1837

Preceded by
  
Harmar Denny, John Gilmore

Born
  
June 19, 1795 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (
1795-06-19
)

Died
  
January 10, 1851, Williamsport, Pennsylvania, United States

Succeeded by
  
Robert Hanna Hammond

Joseph Biles Anthony (June 19, 1795 – January 10, 1851) was a Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.

Joseph Biles Anthony was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He studied law, was admitted to the bar and practiced. He was a member of the Pennsylvania State Senate from 1830 to 1833.

Anthony was elected as a Jacksonian to the Twenty-third and Twenty-fourth Congresses. He was appointed judge of the ‘Nichelson court’, and engaged in the sale of titles to large tracts of lands in Pennsylvania. He was elected president judge of the eighth district in 1844 and served until his death in Williamsport, Pennsylvania. Interment in Williamsport Cemetery.

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