Job Roberts Tyson

Job Roberts Tyson (February 8, 1803 – June 27, 1858) was an American politician who served as a Whig member of the U.S. House of Representatives for Pennsylvania's 2nd congressional district from 1855 to 1857.

Early life and education Tyson was born on February 8, 1803, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania,

In 1825, he began the study of law under John Wurts. He was admitted to the bar in 1827 and practiced law in Philadelphia. In 1851, he received a LL.D. degree from Dickinson College. Tyson wrote several works on the subject including A Brief Survey of the Great Extent and Evil Tendencies of the Lottery System, as Existing in the United States in 1833 and The Lottery System in the United States in 1837 that argued for the end of lotteries as a destructive human behavior. Although the movement against lotteries began with the Quakers, other denominations came out against lotteries with Tyson’s forceful argument against the practice. Nine states eventually banned lotteries by 1835 and new states barred lotteries in their constitutions.

In 1836, he was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society. He served as vice-president of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania and as vice-provost of the Law Academy of Philadelphia.

In 1840, He served in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives. As a member of Congress, he spoke forcefully in favor of the expulsion of Preston Brooks, who had assaulted Senator Charles Sumner. He also passed a resolution for Congress to fund the publication of a book on Elisha Kent Kane's arctic exploration.

Personal life Tyson married Eleanor Cope on October 4, 1832. They had no children together and she died in 1847 He died on his estate, "Woodlawn," in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, on June 27, 1858, and was interred in Laurel Hill Cemetery in Philadelphia.

Publications An Address, delivered at the request of the Board of Managers of the Apprentices' Library Company of Philadelphia, in the Hall of the Franklin Institute, on the 26th March 1830, Philadelphia: John Young, 1830 A Brief Survey of the Great Extent and Evil Tendencies of the Lottery System, as Existing in the United States, Philadelphia: William Brown, 1833 Memoir of Thomas C. James, M.D. One of the Vice Presidents of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia: M'Carty & Davis, 1835 Discourse Delivered Before the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, February 21, 1842, on the Colonial History of the Eastern and Some of the Southern States, Philadelphia: John Penington, 1842 Discourse on the Two Hundredth Anniversary of the Birth of William Penn - Delivered in the Independence Hall at Philadelphia, on 24th October, 1844, Before the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia: John Penington, 1845 Discourse on History as a Branch of the National Literature Delivered Before the Belles Lettres Society of Dickinson College, Philadelphia: T.K. and P.G. Collins, 1849 Letters on the Resources and Commerce of Philadelphia, Philadelphia: C. Sherman, 1852 Address Delivered Before the Montgomery County Agricultural Society, Philadelphia: C. Sherman & Son, 1856