Joshua Mathiot (April 4, 1800 – July 30, 1849) was a

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from

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. Born in

Connellsville, Pennsylvania Connellsville is a city in Fayette County, Pennsylvania, United States, southeast of Pittsburgh and away via the Youghiogheny River, a tributary of the Monongahela River. It is part of the Pittsburgh Metro Area. The population was 7,637 at ...

, Mathiot moved to

Newark, Ohio Newark ( ) is a city serving as the county seat of Licking County, Ohio, United States, east of Columbus, at the junction of the forks of the Licking River. The population was 49,934 at the 2020 census, which makes it the 15th largest city in O ...

, around 1830. He studied law. He was

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, and practiced in Newark. He served as prosecuting attorney 1832–1836. He served as mayor of Newark in 1834. Mathiot was elected as a

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to the Twenty-seventh Congress (March 4, 1841 – March 3, 1843). He was Grand worthy patriarch of the Sons of Temperance in Ohio, and while attending a temperance convention at Sandusky, he contracted cholera, from which he died in

, July 30, 1849. He was interred in Cedar Hill Cemetery.

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