Joseph Hammons

U.S. Congressperson

1787 – 1836

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Who was Joseph Hammons?

Joseph Hammons was a United States Representative from New Hampshire. He was born in Cornish, Maine and educated by private tutors and in the common schools. In addition, he studied medicine in Ossipee, New Hampshire and commenced practice in Farmington, New Hampshire in 1817.

Hammons was elected as a Jacksonian to the Twenty-first and Twenty-second Congresses. After leaving Congress, he was postmaster at Dover, New Hampshire from June 1833 until his death in Farmington in 1836. He was buried in the old family cemetery.

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Born
Mar 3, 1787
Lived in
  • Maine
Died
Mar 29, 1836

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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