Joseph Biles Anthony

This article is about the U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania. For the American playwright and director, see Joseph Anthony.

Joseph Biles Anthony
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania's 16th district
In office March 4, 1833 – March 4, 1837
Preceded by	Harmar Denny, John Gilmore
Succeeded by	Robert Hanna Hammond
Personal details
Born	(1795-06-19)June 19, 1795 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Died
Political party	Democratic

Joseph Biles Anthony (June 19, 1795 – January 10, 1851) was a Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.

Joseph Biles Anthony was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He studied law, was admitted to the bar and practiced. He was a member of the Pennsylvania State Senate from 1830 to 1833.

Anthony was elected as a Jacksonian to the Twenty-third and Twenty-fourth Congresses. He was appointed judge of the ‘Nichelson court’, and engaged in the sale of titles to large tracts of lands in Pennsylvania. He was elected president judge of the eighth district in 1844 and served until his death in Williamsport, Pennsylvania. Interment in Williamsport Cemetery.

Sources

• Joseph Biles Anthony at the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress
• The Political Graveyard

United States House of Representatives
Preceded by Harmar Denny John Gilmore	Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania's 16th congressional district 1833–1837	Succeeded by Robert Hanna Hammond