Joseph Hunter Bryan

Joseph Hunter Bryan (April 9, 1782 in Martin County, North Carolina – December 28, 1939 at La Grange, Tennessee) was a Congressional Representative from North Carolina. He was a brother of Henry Hunter Bryan.

This article is about the U.S. Representative from North Carolina. For the U.S. Representative from Georgia, see Joseph Bryan.

Member of the State house of commons 1804, 1805, and 1807–1809; trustee of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1809–1817, and was sent to Tennessee on behalf of the university to secure from the general assembly of Tennessee its claims to escheated lands; elected as a Democratic-Republican to the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Congresses (March 4, 1815 – March 3, 1819); interment in Elmwood Cemetery, Memphis, Tennessee.

See also
  • Fourteenth United States Congress
  • Fifteenth United States Congress
U.S. House of Representatives
Preceded by
Willis Alston		 Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from North Carolina's 2nd congressional district
1815–1819		 Succeeded by
Hutchins G. Burton



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