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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—PennsylvaniaJoseph Augustine SCRANTON
(1838-1908)
SCRANTON, Joseph
Augustine, (second cousin of George Whitfield Scranton), a
Representative from Pennsylvania; born in Madison, New Haven
County, Conn., July 26, 1838; moved with his parents to
Pennsylvania in 1847; attended Phillips Academy, Andover, Mass.;
attended Yale College 1857-1861; collector of internal revenue
1862-1866; founded the Scranton Daily Republican in 1867; delegate
to the Republican National Convention in 1872; postmaster of
Scranton from March 19, 1874, to May 5, 1881; elected as a
Republican to the Forty-seventh Congress (March 4, 1881-March 3,
1883); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1882 to the
Forty-eighth Congress; elected to the Forty-ninth Congress (March
4, 1885-March 3, 1887); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in
1886 to the Fiftieth Congress; elected to the Fifty-first Congress
(March 4, 1889-March 3, 1891); chairman, Committee on Expenditures
in the Department of State (Fifty-first Congress); unsuccessful
candidate for reelection in 1890 to the Fifty-second Congress;
resumed the newspaper business in Scranton; elected to the
Fifty-third and Fifty-fourth Congresses (March 4, 1893-March 3,
1897); chairman, Committee on Territories (Fifty-fourth Congress);
was not a candidate for renomination in 1896; resumed the
publication and editorship of the Scranton Republican; treasurer of
Lackawanna County 1901-1903; died in Scranton, Lackawanna County,
Pa., October 12, 1908; interment in Dunmore Cemetery.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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