Joseph Jehosephat Harpur (1810 – 2 May 1878) was an Australian politician.
[1] Harpur was born in 1810 in the Hunter River district of New South Wales,[2] to Joseph Harpur and Sarah née Chidley.
[3] His father was originally from Kinsale, County Cork, Ireland, and was parish clerk and master of the Windsor district school while his mother was from Somerset.
[4] He was a public servant and clerk, and active in radical and temperance movements.
In 1861 he was elected to the New South Wales Legislative Assembly for Patrick's Plains at a by-election, but he did not re-contest in 1864.