Joseph Hiester

Infobox Governor
name= Joseph Hiester


caption=
order= 5th
office= Governor of Pennsylvania
term_start= December 19 1820
term_end= December 16 1823
lieutenant=
predecessor= William Findlay
successor= John Andrew Shulze
order2 = Member of the United States House of Representatives from Pennsylvania's 3rd, 5th and 7th
term_start2 = 1797
term_end2 = 1803 (5th)
1803 – 1805 (3rd)
1815 – 1820 (7th)
predecessor2 = George Ege (1797)
Joseph Hemphill (1803)
Daniel Udree (1815)
successor2 = Andrew Gregg
Isaac Anderson, John Whitehill and Christian Lower
Daniel Udree
birth_date= November 18 1752
birth_place=Bern Township, Pennsylvania
death_date=June 10 1832
death_place=Reading, Pennsylvania
party= Democratic-Republican Party
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spouse=
religion =
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Joseph Hiester (18 November 1752 - 10 June 1832) was governor of Pennsylvania from 1820 to 1823. He was a member of the Hiester family political dynasty. He served as a militia leader during the American Revolutionary War and was briefly captured by the British.

He served in Congress for 14 years and ran for governor in 1817, only to be defeated by William Findlay. Hiester faced Findlay again in 1820 and narrowly won a single term in office. During his term, he presided over the dedication of the first state capitol building in the new capital of Harrisburg.

He has a residence hall on the Penn State University Park campus named after him.

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*CongBio|H000574
* [http://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hickson-higginbottom.html The Political Graveyard]