Joel Keith Mann

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Joel Keith Mann (August 1, 1780 – August 28, 1857) was an American politician from Pennsylvania who served as a Jacksonian member of the U.S. House of Representatives from 1831 to 1835.

Early life[edit]

Mann was born in Cheltenham Township, Pennsylvania to Samuel M. and Margaret Keith Mann. He was educated in the common schools and worked as a farmer.[1]

Career[edit]

He was a member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives from 1817 to 1820. He served in the Pennsylvania State Senate for the 3rd district from 1824 to 1829.

Mann was elected as a Jacksonian to the Twenty-second and Twenty-third Congresses. He served as chairman of the United States House Committee on Accounts during the Twenty-third Congress. He resumed agricultural pursuits and died in Jenkintown, Pennsylvania. Interment in the Abington Presbyterian Church Cemetery in Abington, Pennsylvania.[2]

Notes[edit]

  1. ^ "Pennsylvania State Senate - Joel K Mann Biography". www.legis.state.pa.us. Retrieved 1 February 2019.
  2. ^ "Joel Keith Mann". www.findagrave.com. Retrieved 1 February 2019.

Sources[edit]

U.S. House of Representatives
Preceded by Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from Pennsylvania's 5th congressional district

1831–1835
Succeeded by