Joshua Mathiot

Joshua Mathiot
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Ohio's 12th district
In office March 4, 1841 – March 3, 1843
Preceded by	Jonathan Taylor
Succeeded by	Samuel Finley Vinton
Personal details
Born	(1800-04-04)April 4, 1800 Connellsville, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Died	July 30, 1849(1849-07-30) (aged 49) Newark, Ohio, U.S.
Resting place	Cedar Hill Cemetery
Party	Whig

Joshua Mathiot (April 4, 1800 – July 30, 1849) was a 19th-century politician who served one term as a U.S. representative from Ohio from 1841 to 1843.

Biography

Born in Connellsville, Pennsylvania, Mathiot moved to Newark, Ohio, around 1830. He studied law. He was admitted to the bar, and practiced in Newark. Mathiot served as prosecuting attorney from 1832 to 1836, and as mayor of Newark in 1834.

Congress

Mathiot was elected as a Whig to the Twenty-seventh Congress (March 4, 1841 – March 3, 1843).

He was Grand worthy patriarch of the Sons of Temperance in Ohio.

Death and burial

While attending a temperance convention at Sandusky, he contracted cholera, from which he died in Newark, Ohio, July 30, 1849. He was interred in Cedar Hill Cemetery.

Sources

• United States Congress. "Joshua Mathiot (id: M000243)". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.

 This article incorporates public domain material from Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. Federal government of the United States.