Joseph Blunt
Joseph Blunt | |
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| New York County District Attorney | |
Acting | |
| In office 1858–1860 | |
| Preceded by | Peter B. Sweeny |
| Succeeded by | Nelson J. Waterbury |
| Personal details | |
| Born | February 1792 Republican Party |
| Relations | Edmund March Blunt (father) N. Bowditch Blunt (brother) |
| Profession | attorney, politician |
Joseph Blunt (February 1792 – June 16, 1860) was an American lawyer, author, editor, and politician from New York. In 1858, he was appointed New York County district attorney
Early life
Blunt was born on February 1792 in
Career
Joseph Blunt first came into notice by writing on the Missouri question in 1820. Soon afterward he wrote an article on the Laibach circular, published in the North American Review, which attracted the attention of politicians. In 1825, he published a Historical Sketch of the Formation of the American Confederacy (8 vol.), and from 1827 to 1835 he edited the American Annual Register. He also published Speeches, Reviews, and Reports (1843) and Merchants' and Shipmasters' Assistant (1829 and 1848).[3]
He was long a leading
In
In 1858, he was appointed by Gov. John A. King New York County District Attorney to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Peter B. Sweeny.[7]
Personal life
Joseph's youngest brother,
Blunt died on June 16, 1860, in New York City.
References
- ^ "A New Chart of Part of the North Pacific Ocean Exhibiting the Various Straits, Islands and Dangers". World Digital Library. Retrieved 23 May 2013.
- ^ John Howard Brown (1900). Lamb's Biographical Dictionary of the United States], Volume 1.
- ^ a b Wilson & Fiske 1900.
- ^ List of State Department officials
- ^ THE ANTI-NEBRASKA CONVENTION.; Remarks of Joseph Blunt, Esq., on the Nomination of a State Ticket in the New York Times on October 2, 1854
- ^ REPUBLICAN STATE CONVENTION in the New York Times on September 28, 1855
- ^ The New York Civil List compiled by Franklin Benjamin Hough, Stephen C. Hutchins and Edgar Albert Werner (1867; page 531)
- ^ DEATH OF GEO. W. BLUNT in the New York Times on April 20, 1878
- ^ A Critical Dictionary of English Literature, and British and American Authors, Living and Deceased by Samuel Austin Allibone (page 211; Vol. 1; Childs & Peterson, Philadelphia, 1859)
- ^ Obit of Capt. Edmund Blunt, Joseph Blunt's nephew, in the New York Times on January 25, 1894
Attribution
- Wilson, J. G.; Fiske, J., eds. (1900). . Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography. New York: D. Appleton.
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