Joseph Hammons
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Joseph Hammons (March 3, 1787 - March 29, 1836) was a United States Representative from New Hampshire. He was born in Cornish, Maine and educated by private tutors and in the common schools. In addition, he studied medicine in Ossipee, New Hampshire and commenced practice in Farmington, New Hampshire in 1817.
Hammons was elected as a Jacksonian to the Twenty-first and Twenty-second Congresses (March 4, 1829-March 3, 1833). After leaving Congress, he was postmaster at Dover, New Hampshire from June 1833 until his death in Farmington, New Hampshire in 1836. He was buried in the old family cemetery.
