KENT, Joseph (1779-1837)
Whig of Maryland 
0th congressional district
Served in Senate 1833-1837
Served in House 1811-1815 , 1819-1826
Biography
A Representative and a Senator from Maryland; born in Calvert County, Md., January 14, 1779; received a liberal schooling; studied medicine; admitted to medical practice in Lower Marlborough, Calvert County, in 1799; settled near Bladensburg, Md., about 1807; practiced medicine and also engaged in agricultural pursuits; served in the State militia as a surgeon; elected as a Democratic Republican to the Twelfth and Thirteenth Congresses (March 4, 1811-March 3, 1815); chairman, Committee on the District of Columbia (Thirteenth Congress); elected as a Democratic Republican to the Sixteenth and to the succeeding Congress, reelected as a Adams-Clay Republican to the Eighteenth Congress, and reelected as an Adams candidate to the Nineteenth Congress and served from March 4, 1819, to January 6, 1826, when he resigned, having been elected Governor of the State; chairman, Committee on the District of Columbia (Sixteenth through Nineteenth Congresses); Governor of Maryland 1826-1829; elected as an Anti-Jacksonian (later Whig) to the United States Senate and served from March 4, 1833, until his death at his home, "Rose Mount," near Bladensburg, Md., November 24, 1837; chairman, Committee on the District of Columbia (Twenty-fourth and Twenty-fifth Congresses); interment at "Rose Mount," in Bladensburg, Md.Courtesy of Biographical Directory of the United States Congress
