Joseph Baltzell Showalter | |
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| Member of theU.S. House of Representatives fromPennsylvania's25th district | |
| In office April 20, 1897 – March 3, 1903 | |
| Preceded by | Thomas Wharton Phillips |
| Succeeded by | Arthur Laban Bates |
| Personal details | |
| Born | (1851-02-11)February 11, 1851 Smithfield, Pennsylvania, U.S. |
| Died | December 3, 1932(1932-12-03) (aged 81) Washington, D.C., U.S. |
| Political party | Republican |
Joseph Baltzell Showalter (February 11, 1851 – December 3, 1932) was aRepublican member of theUnited States House of Representatives fromPennsylvania.
Joseph B. Showalter was born nearSmithfield, Pennsylvania. He attendedGeorges Creek Academy at Smithfield, and taught school inWest Virginia,Indiana, andIllinois from 1867 to 1873. He moved toChicora, Pennsylvania, in 1873 and engaged in the production ofpetroleum andnatural gas. He studied medicine atLong Island College Hospital inBrooklyn, New York, in 1883, and graduated in 1884 from the College of Physicians and Surgeons ofBaltimore, Maryland (which later merged into theUniversity of Maryland School of Medicine which is a component of theUniversity of Maryland, Baltimore.
He died in 1932 in Washington, D.C., and was interred in the North Cemetery in Butler, Pennsylvania.
Showalter practiced medicine in Chicora from 1884 to 1890, when he again engaged in the production of petroleum and natural gas.
Showalter was elected as member of thePennsylvania State House of Representatives in 1887 and 1888. He served in thePennsylvania State Senate from 1889 to 1892.
He was elected as a Republican to theFifty-fifth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death ofJames J. Davidson. He was reelected to theFifty-sixth andFifty-seventh Congresses. He was not a candidate for reelection in 1902.
He resumed his former business pursuits and resided inButler, Pennsylvania. He later moved toPittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and then toWashington, D.C. He was engaged in the development of land in southernFlorida.
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| Preceded by | Member of the U.S. House of Representatives fromPennsylvania's 25th congressional district 1897–1903 | Succeeded by |
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