Joseph T. Crowell

Joseph Tucker Crowell (December 27, 1817 – September 22, 1891) was an American printer, editor, and politician. He served as Speaker of the New Jersey General Assembly and as President of the New Jersey Senate.

Biography Crowell was born in Rahway, New Jersey in 1817, the son of Nathan and Harriet (Tucker) Crowell. He first learned the printer's trade working on the Elizabeth Journal of Elizabeth, New Jersey. He later set type on the first number of the Sunday Atlas in New York City and printed other New York journals. For five years he published Crowell's Pictorial and National Register, the first pictorial newspaper printed in the United States.

Crowell was a printing contractor for the United States Congress, working with Congressional printer Cornelius Wendell. Wendell had established a printing business in Washington, D.C., in a building designed in 1856 by Edward Clark. Crowell acquired the building in 1859.

During the Civil War, Crowell became active politically as a War Democrat. In 1861, he was elected to the New Jersey Senate from Union County, serving as the body's president in 1862. He went on to serve in the New Jersey General Assembly, holding the position of Speaker in 1865.

In the 1888 presidential election, Crowell left the Democratic Party to support the Republican ticket of Benjamin Harrison.

In 1891, Crowell died in Rahway at the age of 74.