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.
[3] At the age of 17, he worked as a teacher in Hamburg, Pennsylvania, and taught English to German speaking students of the area.
[5] He worked in the prison system, for the apprentice's library and helped organize the temperance movement in Pennsylvania.
Benjamin Franklin was involved in organizing the first public lottery in Philadelphia and used them for establishing fire companies and a militia.
[16] As a member of Congress, he spoke forcefully in favor of the expulsion of Preston Brooks, who had assaulted Senator Charles Sumner.
[17] He also passed a resolution for Congress to fund the publication of a book on Elisha Kent Kane's arctic exploration.
He noted that while he opposed slavery, Tyson argued that Africans, born free or as slaves, were better off, “elevated in character, and improved in condition and happiness, by his residence among a religious, an educated and a free people.” Further, he stated that “The natural inferiority of the negro is physically and metaphysically, a fact.”[18] Tyson married Eleanor Cope on October 4, 1832.