18 Facts About Joseph Bloomfield

Joseph Bloomfield was the fourth governor of New Jersey.

Joseph Bloomfield served two terms in the United States House of Representatives from 1817 to 1821.

Moses Joseph Bloomfield was a surgeon and an abolitionist who represented Middlesex County in the Provincial Congress of New Jersey.

Joseph Bloomfield was educated at Reverend Enoch Green's school in Deerfield Township, New Jersey, where Green was the pastor of the local Presbyterian Church.

Joseph Bloomfield studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1775 and began his law practice in Bridgeton, New Jersey.

In 1794, Joseph Bloomfield led Federal and New Jersey state troops to put down the Whiskey Rebellion, a popular uprising conducted by Appalachian settlers who resisted the excise tax on liquor and distilled drinks, near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

At the start of the War of 1812 Joseph Bloomfield was commissioned as a brigadier general in the United States Army on March 13,1812.

Joseph Bloomfield married Mary McIlvaine, the daughter of William McIlvaine, a physician from Burlington, New Jersey.

Joseph Bloomfield McIlvaine, was the father of Joseph Bloomfield McIlvaine, United States Senator from New Jersey.

At the close of the Revolutionary War, Joseph Bloomfield became one of the founding members of The Society of the Cincinnati in the state of New Jersey, and served as the State Society's president from 1808 until his death in 1823.

Joseph Bloomfield practiced law in Burlington, New Jersey, and was the registrar of the admiralty court from 1779 to 1783.

Joseph Bloomfield served as the New Jersey attorney general from 1783 to 1792 and as a trustee of Princeton College from 1793 until his death.

Joseph Bloomfield was elected Governor of New Jersey as a Democratic-Republican and served in office from 1801 to 1802 and from 1803 to 1812.

In 1814, Joseph Bloomfield was elected a member of the American Antiquarian Society.

Joseph Bloomfield was elected as a Democratic-Republican to the Fifteenth United States Congress and reelected to the Sixteenth Congress from March 4,1817, through March 3,1821, where he represented New Jersey's at-large congressional district.

Joseph Bloomfield ran for, but was not elected to, the Seventeenth Congress.

Joseph Bloomfield previously ran in the 1795 and 1797 elections for the at-large seat, both of in which the top 5 would win; he finished 7th both times.

Joseph Bloomfield died in Burlington, New Jersey, on October 3,1823, and was buried in Saint Mary's Episcopal Churchyard in Burlington.