Joseph Bloomfield

Democratic Republican Representative of New Jersey

  • Representative

    New Jersey

    December 6, 1819 - March 3, 1821

2

Congresses Served

2

House Terms

October 18, 1753 (69 years old)

Birthday

October 3, 1823

Death

  • Served as the fourth governor of New Jersey from 1801 to 1802 and again from 1803 to 1812.
  • Elected to two terms in the United States House of Representatives from 1817 to 1821.
  • Born in Woodbridge, New Jersey, to a physician and abolitionist father.
  • Educated in law and began practicing in Bridgeton, New Jersey.
  • Joined the Continental Army as a captain in 1776, later becoming a major and judge advocate.
  • Wounded in the Battle of Brandywine during the Revolutionary War.
  • Played a role in suppressing the Whiskey Rebellion in 1794.
  • Served as Mayor of Burlington, New Jersey, from 1795 to 1800.
  • Commissioned as a brigadier general at the start of the War of 1812, serving until 1815.
  • Held the position of New Jersey Attorney General from 1783 to 1792.
  • Actively involved in education, serving as a trustee of Princeton College until his death.
  • A founding member and president of The Society of the Cincinnati in New Jersey.
  • Died in Burlington, New Jersey, and was buried in Saint Mary’s Episcopal Churchyard.