Joseph Horace Shull

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Joseph Horace Shull (August 17, 1848–August 9, 1944) was a Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.

Joseph H. Shull was born at Martins Creek, Pennsylvania. He attended the public schools and Blair Hall in Blairstown, New Jersey. He took a special course at Lafayette College in Easton, Pennsylvania. He was graduated from the University of New York and in 1873 from the Bellevue Hospital Medical College, both in New York City. He taught in the public schools of Pennsylvania for four years. He studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1879 and commenced practice in Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania. He worked as editor of the Monroe Democrat from 1881 to 1886. He was a member of the Pennsylvania State Senate from 1886 to 1891.

Shull was elected as a Democrat to the Fifty-eighth Congress. He was an unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1904. He resumed the practice of law and medicine, and was a was a contract surgeon during the First World War. He died in Stroudsburg in 1944. Interment in Stroudsburg Cemetery.

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• Joseph Horace Shull at the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress Retrieved on 2008-02-10
• Political Graveyard

Preceded by Arthur L. Bates

Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania's 26th congressional district 1903 - 1905

Succeeded by Gustav A. Schneebeli