Joseph B. Lancaster Politician

Joseph Bradford Lancaster (1790 – November 25, 1856) was an American lawyer and a Whig politician who served on the Florida Supreme Court from 1848 to 1850. An important figure in Florida law and politics, he was the last justice under the system in which the circuit court judges served also on the supreme court. Lancaster served as Mayor of Jacksonville, Florida from 1846–1847, and later served as the first Mayor of Tampa, Florida in 1856.

Personal facts

Birth dateJanuary 01, 1790
Birth place
Kentucky
Religion
Presbyterianism
Date of deathNovember 25, 1856
Place of death
Tampa Florida

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Politician

party
Whig Party (United States)
successor
Darwin Austen Branch
Oliver Wood (mayor)

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Joseph B. Lancaster on Wikipedia

External resources

  1. http://archive.is/20120530061459/http:/etd.lib.fsu.edu
  2. http://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lancaster.html
  3. http://web.archive.org/web/20030922235519/http:/www.lib.usf.edu/ldsu/digitalcollections/S57/journal/v23n1_97/v23n1_97_063.pdf
  4. http://web.archive.org/web/20060920074643/www.lib.usf.edu/ldsu/digitalcollections/S57/journal/v19n1_93/v19n1_93_003.pdf
  5. http://www.netlibrary.com/Reader