Joshua Mathiot

Joshua Mathiot was a United States [House of Representatives|U.S. representative] from Ohio.
Born in Connellsville, Pennsylvania, Mathiot moved to Newark, Ohio, around 1830.
He studied law.
He was Admission to [the bar in the United States|admitted to the bar], and practiced in Newark. Mathiot served as prosecuting attorney 1832–1836.
He served as mayor of Newark in 1834.
Mathiot was elected as a Whig to the 27th [United States Congress|Twenty-seventh] Congress.
He was Grand worthy patriarch of the Sons of Temperance in Ohio, and while attending a temperance convention at Sandusky, he contracted cholera, from which he died in Newark, Ohio, July 30, 1849.
He was interred in Cedar Hill Cemetery.