Joseph Baltzell Showalter

Joseph Baltzell Showalter (February 11, 1851–December 3, 1932) was a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.

Early life and education

Joseph B. Showalter was born near Smithfield, Pennsylvania. He attended Georges Creek Academy at Smithfield, and taught school in West Virginia, Indiana, and Illinois from 1867 to 1873. He moved to Chicora, Pennsylvania, in 1873 and engaged in the production of petroleum and natural gas. He studied medicine at Long Island College Hospital in Brooklyn, New York, in 1883, and graduated from the College of Physicians and Surgeons in Baltimore, Maryland, in 1884. He practiced medicine in Chicora from 1884 to 1890, when he again engaged in the production of petroleum and natural gas.

Political activities

He was elected as member of the Pennsylvania State House of Representatives in 1887 and 1888. He served in the Pennsylvania State Senate from 1889 to 1892.

Showalter was elected as a Republican to the Fifty-fifth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of James J. Davidson. He was reelected to the Fifty-sixth and Fifty-seventh Congresses. He was not a candidate for reelection in 1902.

He resumed his former business pursuits and resided in Butler, Pennsylvania. He later moved to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and then to Washington, D.C. He was engaged in the development of land in southern Florida, and died in Washington, D.C., in 1932. Interment in North Cemetery in Butler, Pennsylvania.

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