Joseph Cable
Joseph Cable was an American lawyer and politician who served as a U.S. representative from Ohio for two terms from 1849 to 1853. He was the great-grandfather of Congressman John Levi Cable.
Life and career
Born in Jefferson County, then in the Territory Northwest of the River Ohio, Cable attended the public schools. He studied law. He was admitted to the bar and commenced practice in Jefferson County. He established and published the Jeffersonian and Democrat at Steubenville, Ohio, in 1831 and later the Ohio Patriot at New Lisbon, Ohio.Congress
Cable was elected as a Democrat to the Thirty-first and Thirty-second Congresses, while living in Carroll County.He was not a candidate for renomination in 1852.