Biography

06/17/1804 - 01/14/1852


CLARKSON, Joseph Gibbons, a Representative from Philadelphia City; born, June 17, 1804 in Delaware; B.A., law, University of Pennsylvania, 1821; lawyer; secretary, National Republican Convention (1832): elected as a Democrat to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives for the 1832-1833 term; clerk, select council, Philadelphia (1833-1840); director, Girard College (1850-1852); died, January 14, 1852 in Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania; interred, Saint Peter’s Episcopal Churchyard, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania. 


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