Joseph S. Lyman Explained

Joseph S. Lyman
State:New York
Term Start:March 4, 1819
Term End:March 3, 1821
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Birth Date:14 February 1785
Birth Place:Northfield, Massachusetts, USA
Death Place:Cooperstown, New York, USA
Party:Democratic-Republican

Joseph Stebbins Lyman (February 14, 1785 – March 21, 1821) was a U.S. Representative from New York.

Born in Northfield, Massachusetts, Lyman attended the common schools. He was graduated from Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, in 1806. He then studied law and was admitted to the bar and commenced practice in Cooperstown, New York. Lyman was elected as a Democratic-Republican to the Sixteenth Congress (March 4, 1819 – March 3, 1821). He was not a candidate for renomination in 1821. He died in Cooperstown, March 21, 1821. He was interred in Greenfield, Massachusetts.