Joseph Hamilton Daveiss

Joseph Hamilton Daveiss (; March 1774 – November 7, 1811), a Virginia-born lawyer, received a mortal wound while commanding the Dragoons of the Kentucky Militia at the Battle of Tippecanoe. Five years earlier, Daveiss had tried to warn President Thomas Jefferson about the Burr conspiracy, a plan by Aaron Burr to provoke rebellion in Spanish-held territories southwest of his Kentucky district.

Early and family life Joseph Hamilton Daveiss was born on March 1 (or 4 ), 1774, in Bedford County, Virginia, to Jean/Joan (née Hamilton) and Joseph Daveiss. He moved at a young age with his parents to Kentucky, first to Lincoln County. The family eventually settled near Danville in Boyle County. He studied classics at a private academy in Harrodsburg with Jesse Bledsoe, Felix Grundy, Archibald Cameron and John Pope.

Daveiss assisted John Rowan as his second in a duel, in which Rowan mortally wounded his antagonist James Chambers, then fled, so Daveiss also became a fugitive for a time. When Rowan turned himself into authorities, Daveiss defended him at trial, and achieved an acquittal. Daveiss became the first lawyer west of the Appalachian Mountains to argue a case before the United States Supreme Court.

Following his trip to Washington, D.C., Daveiss was appointed as United States Attorney for Kentucky by President John Adams.

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