Joseph Hunter Bryan

Democratic Republican Representative of North Carolina's 2nd district

  • Representative

    North Carolina, district 2

    December 1, 1817 - March 3, 1819

2

Congresses Served

2

House Terms

April 9, 1782 (57 years old)

Birthday

December 28, 1839

Death

  • Served as a Congressional Representative from North Carolina
  • Born in Martin County, North Carolina
  • Brother of Henry Hunter Bryan
  • Served in the State house of commons in 1804, 1805, and from 1807 to 1809
  • Trustee of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill from 1809 to 1817
  • Was sent to Tennessee to secure claims to escheated lands for the University of North Carolina
  • Elected as a Democratic-Republican to the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Congresses, serving from March 4, 1815, to March 3, 1819
  • Died in La Grange, Tennessee, and was interred in Elmwood Cemetery, Memphis, Tennessee