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Sessions Office Position District Party
1862 Representative Democrat
1863 Representative Democrat
1864 Representative Democrat
1865 Representative Democrat
1866 Representative Democrat
1867 Representative Democrat
1868 Representative Democrat
1869 Representative Democrat
1870 Representative Democrat
1871 Representative Democrat
1872 Representative Democrat
1873 Representative Democrat
1874 Representative Democrat
Counties Philadelphia

Biography

04/04/1832 - 10/26/1895


JOSEPHS, Samuel A., a Representative from Philadelphia County; born, April 4, 1832 in Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pa.; engraver; bank note engraver, United States Mint, Department of Treasury, Philadelphia; elected as a Democrat to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives for the 1862 term; reelected to the House for 12 more consecutive terms; not a candidate for reelection to the House for the 1875 term; elected, delegate, Democratic National Convention (1876, 1880, 1884, 1888 and 1892); contractor; unsuccessful campaign, United States marshall, Eastern District of Pa. (1884); died, October 26, 1895 in Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania; interred, Mount Vernon Cemetery, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania.


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