Joseph Biles Anthony (June 19, 1795 – January 10, 1851) was an American lawyer and politician from Pennsylvania who served as a Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives for two terms, representing Pennsylvania's 16th congressional district from 1833 to 1837.
[1] Anthony was elected as a Jacksonian to the Twenty-third and Twenty-fourth Congresses.
After leaving Congress, he was appointed judge of the ‘Nichelson court’, and engaged in the sale of titles to large tracts of lands in Pennsylvania.
He was elected president judge of the eighth district in 1844 and served until his death in Williamsport, Pennsylvania.
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