Joshua Van Sant

Joshua Van Sant (December 31, 1803 – April 8, 1884) was a United States Congressional representative from Maryland.

He was an unsuccessful candidate as a Jackson Democrat (supporting seventh President Andrew Jackson) to the lower chamber Maryland House of Delegates of the General Assembly of Maryland in 1833 and 1834, but served as a delegate to the State constitutional convention (version unratified) in 1836.

He later served as a presidential elector on the Democratic ticket of John C. Breckinridge in pivotal crucial Presidential Election of 1860 which led up to the American Civil War (1861-1865), and was delegate to the State constitutional convention in 1867 which created the fourth version and current state constitution.

He was director of the Maryland State Penitentiary (founded 1806) from 1867 to 1869, serving two years as president.

He was member of the board of trustees of the McDonough Educational Fund and Institute (for the modern McDonough School) from 1867 to 1871, serving as president in 1871, and member and president of the board for Bay View Asylum (later renamed Baltimore City Hospitals, then Francis Scott Key Medical Center, and today as Johns Hopkins Bayview) from 1868 to 1870.