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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—New JerseyJoshua S. SALMON
(1846-1902)
SALMON, Joshua S., a
Representative from New Jersey; born at Mount Olive, Morris County,
N.J., February 2, 1846; at an early age moved with his parents to
the village of Bartley; attended the district school; taught school
for two years; completed an academic course at the Charlotteville
(N.Y.) Seminary and at Schooley’s Mountain Seminary, New
Jersey, where he afterward became an instructor; was graduated from
the Albany (N.Y.) Law School in 1873; was admitted to the New York
bar in 1873, to the New Jersey bar in 1875, and commenced practice
in Jersey City, N.J.; moved to Boonton, Morris County, and
practiced there and in Morristown; held several county offices;
member of the State house of assembly in 1877 and 1878; prosecuting
attorney of Morris County 1893-1898; delegate to the Democratic
National Convention in 1900; elected as a Democrat to the
Fifty-sixth and Fifty-seventh Congresses and served from March 4,
1899, until his death in Boonton, N.J., May 6, 1902; interment in
Greenwood Cemetery.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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