Joseph Kerr
Joseph Kerr | |
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| United States Senator from Ohio | |
| In office December 10, 1814 – March 3, 1815 | |
| Preceded by | Thomas Worthington |
| Succeeded by | Benjamin Ruggles |
| Member of the Ohio Senate from Ross and Franklin counties | |
| In office 1804–1806 | |
| Preceded by | Abraham Claypool Nathaniel Massie |
| Succeeded by | Abraham Claypool Duncan MacArthur |
| Member of the Ohio House of Representatives from Ross County | |
| In office 1818–1820 | |
| Preceded by | Duncan McArthur James Manary William Vance |
| Succeeded by | John Bailhache John Entrekin William Vance |
| Member of the Ohio House of Representatives from Ross County | |
| In office 1808–1809 | |
| Preceded by | New district |
| Succeeded by | James Dunlap Joseph Gardner Nathaniel Massie David Shelby Edward Tiffin |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 1765 Chambersburg, Pennsylvania |
| Died | August 22, 1837 (aged 71–72) East Carroll Parish, Louisiana, US |
| Political party | Democratic-Republican |
Joseph Kerr (1765 – August 22, 1837) was a Democratic-Republican politician from Ohio who served in the United States Senate.
Biography
[edit]Kerr (pronounced "car") was born in Kerrtown, Pennsylvania (now Chambersburg), and moved to Ohio in 1792. He served in a number of positions as clerk, surveyor, judge and justice of the peace in the Northwest Territory.
He served as justice of the peace at Manchester, Adams County, Ohio in 1797. and as a judge of the first quarter session court of Adams County, Northwest Territory, in 1797.
Kerr's son, Joseph Kerr Jr., died in the Battle of the Alamo.[1]
Career
[edit]After statehood was declared, Kerr was elected to the Ohio House of Representatives in 1808, 1816, 1818, and 1819. He was elected to the Ohio State Senate in 1804 and 1810. He also served as a brigadier general of Ohio Volunteers during the War of 1812, in charge of supplying provisions to the Army of the Northwest.
Kerr was elected to the U.S. Senate in 1814 to fill a vacancy created by the resignation of Thomas Worthington.[2] Kerr served from December 10, 1814, to March 3, 1815,[3] and did not seek re-election.
Death
[edit]Kerr's extensive farm went bankrupt in 1826, and he moved to Memphis, Tennessee and then to rural Louisiana, where he purchased a homestead near Lake Providence.[4] He died on August 22, 1837.
References
[edit]- ^ Groneman, Bill (June 15, 2010). "KERR, JOSEPH". Texas State Historical Association.
- ^ "KERR, Joseph, (1765 - 1837)". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. Retrieved August 24, 2012.
- ^ "govtrack.us". Civic Impulse, LLC. Retrieved August 24, 2012.
- ^ "KERR, Joseph, (1765 - 1837)". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. Retrieved March 1, 2014.
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- 1765 births
- 1837 deaths
- 19th-century American legislators
- American militia generals
- American militiamen in the War of 1812
- Democratic-Republican Party United States senators from Ohio
- Members of the Ohio House of Representatives
- Military personnel from Pennsylvania
- Northwest Territory judges
- Ohio state senators
- People from Chambersburg, Pennsylvania
- People from Lake Providence, Louisiana