Background
Mathiot, Joshua was born on April 4, 1800 in Connellsville, Pennsylvania, United States.
United States representative lawyer politician
Mathiot, Joshua was born on April 4, 1800 in Connellsville, Pennsylvania, United States.
Studied law, Newark, O.
Born in Connellsville, Pennsylvania, Mathiot moved to Newark, Ohio, about 1830. He was admitted to the bar and practiced in Newark. He served as prosecuting attorney 1832-1836.
He served as mayor of Newark in 1834.
Mathiot was elected as a Whig to the Twenty-seventh Congress (March 4, 1841-March 3, 1843). Grand worthy patriarch of the Sons of Temperance in Ohio, and while attending a temperance convention at Sandusky contracted cholera, from which he died in Newark, Ohio, July 30, 1849.
He was interred in Cedar Hill Cemetery.
Member United States House