Joseph Coerten Hornblower (May 7, 1777 – June 11, 1864) was an American lawyer and jurist from Belleville, New Jersey.
[2] Josiah Hornblower was a prominent engineer and mine operator who served in the Continental Congress.
[1] Later in his life, Princeton University conferred him with an honorary degree of Legum Doctor on September 30, 1841.
[1] In 1836, Chief Justice Hornblower wrote an unpublished opinion in New Jersey vs. Sheriff of Burlington that was later used to argue a legal precedent against the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850.
He was chairman of the New Jersey delegation and one of the vice-presidents of the 1856 Republican National Convention that nominated John C. Fremont for U.S.