Preceded by District created Occupation Attorney Succeeded by Richard S. Ayer Preceded by Edward Camm Name Joseph Segar Resigned March 3, 1863 | Preceded by Severn Parker Role U.S. representative Resting place Hampton Political party Unionist Party Republican Party | |
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Preceded by Muscoe Russell Hunter Garnett Born June 1, 1804
King William County, Virginia ( 1804-06-01 ) Died April 30, 1880, Chesapeake Bay, United States | ||
Joseph Eggleston Segar (June 1, 1804 – April 30, 1880) was a U.S. Representative from Virginia.
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Early life
Born in King William County, Virginia, Segar attended the common schools. He studied law, was admitted to the bar and practiced law. He held several local offices, and served as member of the Virginia House of Delegates, 1836–1838, 1848–1852, and 1855-1861.
Congressional career
Segar presented credentials as a Unionist Member-elect to the Thirty-seventh Congress from an election held on October 24, 1861, but the House on February 11, 1862, decided he was not entitled to the seat. Segar was subsequently elected to the same Congress and served from March 15, 1862, to March 3, 1863.
In the Thirty-eighth Congress (1863–1865), no Virginia representatives were seated. Segar presented credentials, but was declared not entitled to the seat by resolution of May 17, 1864, though he was paid for mileage and pro-rated salary.
Segar presented credentials on February 17, 1865, as a United States Senator-elect to fill the vacancy in the term commencing March 4, 1863, caused by the death of Lemuel J. Bowden, but was not permitted to take his seat.
On January 25, 1870, in the Forty-first Congress, Segar claimed an at-large ninth seat for Virginia in the U.S. House, but was not seated. The recent Virginia constitutional convention had asserted the ninth seat, but Congress only allowed eight seats to Virginia, since its apportionment of eleven seats had been reduced by the three seats assigned to the new state of West Virginia in 1863.
Segar was an unsuccessful Republican candidate for election in 1876 to the Forty-fifth Congress.
Later life
Segar served as member of the Spanish Claims Commission from 1877 to 1880.
He died on a steamer while en route from Norfolk, Virginia, to Washington, D.C., on April 30, 1880. He was interred in St. John's Cemetery, Hampton, Virginia.