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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—FloridaJoseph Marion HERNÁNDEZ
(1788-1857)
HERNÁNDEZ, Joseph
Marion, a Delegate from the Territory of Florida; born in
St. Augustine, Fla. (then a Spanish colony), May 26, 1788;
transferred his allegiance to the United States; upon the formation
of Florida Territory was elected as a Delegate to the Seventeenth
Congress and served from September 30, 1822, to March 3, 1823;
unsuccessful candidate for election to the Eighteenth Congress in
1823 and Nineteenth Congress in 1825; member and presiding officer
of the Territorial house of representatives, 1824-1825; appointed
brigadier general of Volunteers in the war against the Florida
Indians; entered the United States service and served from 1835 to
1838; commanded the expedition in 1837 that captured the Indian
chief Oceola; appointed brigadier general of Mounted Volunteers in
July 1837; unsuccessful Whig candidate for the United States Senate
in 1845; moved to Cuba and engaged as a planter in the District of
Coliseo, near Matanzas; died at the family’s sugar estate,
“Audaz,” in the District of Coliseo, Matanzas Province,
Cuba, June 8, 1857; interment in the Junco family vault in San
Carlos Cemetery, Matanzas, Cuba.
Bibliography
Linville, Nick. “Cultural Assimilation in Frontier Florida:
The Life of Joseph M. Hernandez, 1788-1857.” M. A. Thesis,
University of Florida, 2004.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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