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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—New JerseyBLOOMFIELD, Joseph
(1753—1823)
BLOOMFIELD, Joseph, a Representative from New Jersey; born in Woodbridge, Middlesex County, N.J., October 18, 1753; educated at Rev. Enoch Green’s school in Deerfield, N.J.; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1775 and commenced practice in Bridgeton, N.J.; entered the Revolutionary Army as captain of the Third New Jersey Regiment on February 9, 1776; attained the rank of major; resumed the practice of law in Burlington, N.J.; registrar of the admiralty court 1779-1783; State attorney general from 1783 to 1792, when he resigned; trustee of Princeton College from 1793 until his resignation in 1801; Governor of New Jersey 1801-1812; commissioned brigadier general on March 13, 1812, and served until June 15, 1815; elected as a Republican to the Fifteenth Congress and reelected to the Sixteenth Congress (March 4, 1817-March 3, 1821); unsuccessful candidate for reelection to the Seventeenth Congress; died in Burlington, Burlington County, N.J., October 3, 1823; interment in St. Mary’s Episcopal Churchyard.
Bloomfield, Joseph. Citizen Soldier: The Revolutionary War Journal of Joseph Bloomfield. Edited by Mark E. Lender, James Kirby Martin
. Newark: New Jersey Historical Society, 1982.
New Jersey. Supreme Court. Cases adjudged in the Supreme Court of New-Jersey, relative to the manumission of Negroes and others holden in bondage: collected and published by the late Governor Joseph Bloomfield
. Burlington: Printed for “The New-Jersey Society for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery,” by Isaac Neale, 1794. Reprint, by Franklin Ferguson. Camden, N.J.: Printed for Josiah Harrison, 1843.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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