Joshua Mathiot

Joshua Mathiot (April 4, 1800 – July 30, 1849) was a 19th-century politician who served one term as a U.S. representative from Ohio from 1841 to 1843.

Biography Born in Connellsville, Pennsylvania, Mathiot moved to Newark, Ohio, around 1830. He studied law. He was admitted to the bar, and practiced in Newark. Mathiot served as prosecuting attorney from 1832 to 1836, and as mayor of Newark in 1834.

Congress Mathiot was elected as a Whig to the Twenty-seventh Congress (March 4, 1841 – March 3, 1843).

He was Grand worthy patriarch of the Sons of Temperance in Ohio.

Death and burial While attending a temperance convention at Sandusky, he contracted cholera, from which he died in Newark, Ohio, July 30, 1849. He was interred in Cedar Hill Cemetery.