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Joseph Crocker Sibley (February 18, 1850 – May 18, 1926) was a U.S. Representative from the state of Pennsylvania.

Joseph C. Sibley was born in Friendship, New York. In 1859 he moved with his parents to Boston, New York. He attended the county schools and the local academies at Springville and Friendship. He taught school and studied medicine. He was engaged in the oil-refining business in Franklin, Pennsylvania, and in manufacturing and agricultural pursuits. He was mayor of Franklin, Pennsylvania, in 1879.

Sibley was elected as a Democrat to the Fifty-third Congress. He was unsuccessful candidate of the Democratic and Populist Parties for reelection in 1894 and for election in 1896. He was elected as a Democrat to the Fifty-sixth Congress. He was elected as a Republican to the Fifty-seventh, Fifty-eighth, and Fifty-ninth Congresses. He served as chairman of the United States House Committee on Manufactures during the Fifty-eighth and Fifty-ninth Congresses. He declined renomination in 1906. He was nominated for Congress in 1910, but declined to make the campaign because of ill health. He served as chairman of the Republican State convention in 1902. He resumed his former manufacturing and agricultural pursuits, and died at his home, “River Ridge Farm,” near Franklin, Pennsylvania, in 1926. Interment in Franklin Cemetery.

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• Biography at the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress
• The Political Graveyard

Preceded by Matthew Griswold	Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania's 26th congressional district 1893 - 1895	Succeeded by Matthew Griswold
Preceded by Charles W. Stone	Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania's 27th congressional district 1899 - 1903	Succeeded by William O. Smith
Preceded by James K.P. Hall	Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania's 28th congressional district 1903 - 1907	Succeeded by Nelson P. Wheeler