Jonas Earll, Jr.
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Jonas Earll, Jr. (unknown - October 28, 1846) was a U.S. Representative from New York, cousin of Nehemiah Hezekiah Earll.
Born in 1786, EarllResided in Onondaga County, New York, and attended the common schools. Sheriff of Onondaga County 1815-1819. He served as member of the State assembly in 1820 and 1821. He served in the State senate from January 1823 to January 1827.
Earll was elected to the Twentieth Congress and reelected as a Jacksonian to the Twenty-first Congress (March 4, 1827-March 3, 1831). He served as chairman of the Committee on Expenditures in the Department of State (Twenty-first Congress).
Earll was elected a canal commissioner and served from January 1832 to February 1840. Postmaster of Syracuse, New York, from June 26, 1840, until March 10, 1842.
Earll was again elected a canal commissioner and served from February 8, 1842, until his death in Syracuse, New York, October 28, 1846. He was interred in Walnut Grove Cemetery, Onondaga Hill, New York.
