Biography

10/05/1811 - 03/03/1882


SEDGWICK, Joseph, a Representative from Greene County; born, October 5, 1811 in Pennsylvania; postmaster, United States Postal Service; boatman; merchant; elected as a Democrat to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives for the 1869 and 1870 terms; not a candidate for reelection to the House for the 1871 term; died, March 3, 1882; interred, Hewitt’s Cemetery, Rice’s Landing, Greene County, Pennsylvania.


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