| Joseph Hiester | |
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| In office December 19, 1820 – December 16, 1823 |
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| Preceded by | William Findlay |
| Succeeded by | John Andrew Shulze |
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| In office 1797 – 1803 (5th) 1803 – 1805 (3rd) 1815 – 1820 (7th) |
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| Preceded by | George Ege (1797) Joseph Hemphill (1803) Daniel Udree (1815) |
| Succeeded by | Andrew Gregg Isaac Anderson, John Whitehill and Christian Lower Daniel Udree |
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| Born | November 18, 1752 Bern Township, Pennsylvania |
| Died | June 10, 1832 Reading, Pennsylvania |
| Political party | Democratic-Republican Party |
Joseph Hiester (born Bern Township, Berks County, Pennsylvania, 18 November 1752; died Reading, Pennsylvania, 10 June 1832) was governor of Pennsylvania from 1820 to 1823. He was a member of the Hiester family political dynasty, the son of John Hiester and Maria Barbara Epler. He received a common-school education when he was not working on the farm, and became a clerk in a store in Reading. At the beginning of the American Revolutionary War, he raised and equipped in that town a company with which he took part in the battles of Long Island and Germantown. He was promoted colonel, and was briefly captured and confined in the prison ship “Jersey,” where he did much to alleviate the sufferings of his fellow prisoners.
He was a member of the convention of 1776 that drafted the Articles of Confederation, of the Pennsylvania state constitutional convention which ratified the United States Constitution, and of the state constitutional convention of 1790. He served in the house (1787-1790) and the senate (1790-1794) of Pennsylvania. In 1807, he was appointed one of the two major generals to command the quota of Pennsylvania militia that was called for by the president. He served in the United States House of Representatives from 1797 until 1805, and again from 1815 until 1820, 14 years altogether. In 1817, he ran for governor, only to be defeated by William Findlay. Hiester faced Findlay again in 1820 and narrowly won a single term in office. He served until 1824 when he retired from public life. During his term, he presided over the dedication of the first state capitol building in the new capital of Harrisburg.
He has a residence hall on the Penn State University Park campus named after him.
References
- Joseph Hiester at the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress
"Hiester, Daniel". Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography. 1892.- The Political Graveyard
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| United States House of Representatives | ||
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| Preceded by George Ege |
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania's 5th congressional district 1797-1803 |
Succeeded by Andrew Gregg |
| Preceded by Joseph Hemphill |
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania's 3rd congressional district 1803-1805 alongside: Isaac Anderson and John Whitehill |
Succeeded by Isaac Anderson John Whitehill Christian Lower |
| Preceded by Daniel Udree |
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania's 7th congressional district 1815-1820 |
Succeeded by Daniel Udree |
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| Preceded by William Findlay |
Governor of Pennsylvania 1820–1823 |
Succeeded by John Andrew Shulze |
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