Scranton, Joseph Augustine

Life Span
to
    Full name
    Joseph Augustine Scranton
    Place of Birth
    Burial Place
    Birth Date Certainty
    Exact
    Death Date Certainty
    Exact
    Gender
    Male
    Race
    White
    Sectional choice
    North
    Origins
    Free State
    No. of Spouses
    1
    No. of Children
    2
    Family
    Joseph H. Scranton (father), Ada E. Meylert (wife)
    Education
    Yale
    Occupation
    Politician
    Journalist
    Political Parties
    Republican
    Government
    Lincoln Administration (1861-65)
    Grant Administration (1869-77)
    Hayes Administration (1877-81)
    US House of Representatives
    Local government

    Joseph Augustine Scranton (Congressional Biographical Directory)

    Reference
    SCRANTON, Joseph Augustine,  (second cousin of George Whitfield Scranton), a Representative from Pennsylvania; born in Madison, New Haven County, Conn., July 26, 1838; moved with his parents to Pennsylvania in 1847; attended Phillips Academy, Andover, Mass.; attended Yale College 1857-1861; collector of internal revenue 1862-1866; founded the Scranton Daily Republican in 1867; delegate to the Republican National Convention in 1872; postmaster of Scranton from March 19, 1874, to May 5, 1881; elected as a Republican to the Forty-seventh Congress (March 4, 1881-March 3, 1883); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1882 to the Forty-eighth Congress; elected to the Forty-ninth Congress (March 4, 1885-March 3, 1887); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1886 to the Fiftieth Congress; elected to the Fifty-first Congress (March 4, 1889-March 3, 1891); chairman, Committee on Expenditures in the Department of State (Fifty-first Congress); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1890 to the Fifty-second Congress; resumed the newspaper business in Scranton; elected to the Fifty-third and Fifty-fourth Congresses (March 4, 1893-March 3, 1897); chairman, Committee on Territories (Fifty-fourth Congress); was not a candidate for renomination in 1896; resumed the publication and editorship of the Scranton Republican; treasurer of Lackawanna County 1901-1903; died in Scranton, Lackawanna County, Pa., October 12, 1908; interment in Forest Hill Cemetery.
    "Scranton, Joseph  Augustine," Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1774 to Present, http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=S000192.
    How to Cite This Page: "Scranton, Joseph Augustine," House Divided: The Civil War Research Engine at Dickinson College, https://hd.housedivided.dickinson.edu/node/17503.