Joseph Fornance (October 18, 1804 – November 24, 1852) was an American lawyer and politician who served two terms as a Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania from 1839 to 1843.
He studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1832, and commenced practice in Norristown, Pennsylvania.
He was interred in Montgomery Cemetery, in West Norriton Township, Pennsylvania, near Norristown.
Fornance nominated future Civil War Major General and Democratic presidential candidate Winfield Scott Hancock for the United States Military Academy at West Point.
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