Joseph Hunter Bryan
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This article is about the U.S. Representative from North Carolina. For the U.S. Representative from Georgia, see Joseph Bryan.
Joseph Hunter Bryan (born in Martin County, North Carolina, April 9, 1782, died at La Grange, Tennessee, December 28, 1839) was a Congressional Representative from North Carolina. He was a brother of Henry Hunter Bryan.
Member of the State house of commons 1804, 1805, and 1807-1809; trustee of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1809-1817, and was sent to Tennessee on behalf of the university to secure from the general assembly of Tennessee its claims to escheated lands; elected as a Republican to the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Congresses (March 4, 1815-March 3, 1819); interment in Elmwood Cemetery, Memphis, Tennessee.
[edit] See also
- Fourteenth United States Congress
- Fifteenth United States Congress
- U.S. Congress Biographical Directory entry
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