Joseph M. Root

Joseph M. Root

Joseph Mosley Root (October 7, 1807 – April 7, 1879) was a U.S. Representative from Ohio.

Born in Brutus, New York, Root pursued classical studies.He studied law in Auburn, New York.He moved to Ohio in 1829.He was admitted to the bar in 1830 and commenced practice in Norwalk, Ohio.

Root was elected prosecuting attorney of Huron County in 1837.He served as member of the State senate in 1840 and 1841.

Root was elected as a Whig to the Twenty-ninth Congress.He was reelected to the Thirtieth Congress and reelected as a Free-Soil candidate to the Thirty-first Congress (March 4, 1845-March 3, 1851).He served as chairman of the Committee on Expenditures in the Department of the Treasury (Thirtieth Congress).He served as presidential elector on the Republican ticket in 1860.He was appointed United States attorney for the northern district of Ohio in 1861.He was again a member of the Ohio Senate in 1869.He served as Democratic delegate to the State constitutional convention in 1873.He was an unsuccessful Democratic candidate for probate judge of Erie County in 1875.

He died in Sandusky, Ohio, April 7, 1879.He was interred in Oakland Cemetery.

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