- Joseph Horace Shull
Joseph Horace Shull (
August 17 ,1848 –August 9 ,1944 ) was a Democratic member of theU.S. House of Representatives fromPennsylvania .Joseph H. Shull was born at
Martins Creek, Pennsylvania . He attended the public schools andBlair Hall inBlairstown, New Jersey . He took a special course atLafayette College inEaston, Pennsylvania . He was graduated from theUniversity of New York and in 1873 from theBellevue Hospital Medical College , both inNew York City . He taught in the public schools of Pennsylvania for four years. He studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1879 and commenced practice inStroudsburg, Pennsylvania . He worked as editor of the "Monroe Democrat " from 1881 to 1886. He was a member of thePennsylvania State Senate from 1886 to 1891.Shull was elected as a Democrat to the Fifty-eighth Congress. He was an unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1904. He resumed the practice of law and medicine, and was a was a contract surgeon during the
First World War . He died in Stroudsburg in 1944. Interment in Stroudsburg Cemetery.References
*CongBio|S000391 Retrieved on
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* [http://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/shuldberg-shuttleworth.htmlThe Political Graveyard]
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