# Joel Turrill

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{{short description|American politician (1794–1859)}}
{{Infobox officeholder
| name = Joel Turrill
|image = Joel Turrill.jpg 
|caption = 
|state        = [New York](/source/New_York_(state))
|district     = {{ushr|NY|17|17th}}
| term_start = March 4, 1833
| term_end = March 3, 1837
| predecessor = [Frederick Whittlesey](/source/Frederick_Whittlesey)
| successor = [Abraham P. Grant](/source/Abraham_P._Grant)
| birth_date = February 22, 1794
| birth_place = [Shoreham, Vermont](/source/Shoreham%2C_Vermont), U.S.
| death_date = December 28, 1859 (aged 65)
| death_place = [Oswego, New York](/source/Oswego%2C_New_York), U.S.
| resting_place = [Riverside Cemetery](/source/Riverside_Cemetery_(Oswego%2C_New_York))
}}
'''Joel Turrill''' (February 22, 1794 – December 28, 1859) was a judge, politician, and diplomat from [New York](/source/New_York_(state)). From 1833 to 1837, he served two terms in the [U.S. House of Representatives](/source/United_States_House_of_Representatives).

==Life==
Turrill was born February 22, 1794, in [Shoreham, Vermont](/source/Shoreham%2C_Vermont), and attended the common school. He graduated from Middlebury College in 1816. He studied law in [Newburgh, New York](/source/Newburgh%2C_New_York) and later moved to [Oswego, New York](/source/Oswego%2C_New_York), to practice after being [admitted to the bar](/source/Admission_to_the_bar_in_the_United_States) in 1819. He served as [Justice of the Peace](/source/Justice_of_the_Peace), County judge 1828-1833, and member of the State assembly in 1831.

Turrill was elected as a Jacksonian to the [Twenty-third](/source/23rd_United_States_Congress) and [Twenty-fourth](/source/24th_United_States_Congress) Congresses in the [House of Representatives](/source/United_States_House_of_Representatives) from March 4, 1833, to March 3, 1837.
He was not a candidate for reelection in 1836.
He served as district attorney for Oswego County 1838-1840, and surrogate of Oswego County in 1843.
He was appointed United States [consul](/source/consul_(representative)) to the [Kingdom of Hawaii](/source/Kingdom_of_Hawaii) 1845-1850.<ref name="greer">{{cite news |title= A. G. Abell's Hawaiian Interlude |work= Hawaiian Journal of History |publisher=Hawaii Historical Society |volume= 29 |author= Richard A. Greer |year= 1995 |pages= 57–74 |hdl = 10524/441}}</ref>
He died in [Oswego, New York](/source/Oswego%2C_New_York) on December 28, 1859 and  was interred in [Riverside Cemetery](/source/Riverside_Cemetery_(Oswego%2C_New_York)).<ref>{{CongBio|T000435|inline=inline}}</ref>

==Personal life==
Turrill married Mary Sullivan Hubbard on Dec. 21, 1830 in Champion, New York. They had four children: William, Elizabeth Douglas, Mary Hubbard and Frederick. The older daughter, Elizabeth Douglas (Turrill) Van Denburgh, wrote an account of the family's voyage in 1845 and 1846 to the "Sandwich Islands" when her father was appointed U.S. Consul-General to the Kingdom of Hawaii.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Van Denburgh |first1=Elizabeth Douglas |title=My Voyage in the United States Frigate "Congress" |date=1913 |publisher=Desmond FitzGerald, Inc. |location=New York |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8axiAAAAMAAJ |accessdate=29 September 2020}}</ref>

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| state= New York
| district= 17
| before= [David P. Brewster](/source/David_P._Brewster)
| after= [Abraham P. Grant](/source/Abraham_P._Grant)
| years= 1833–1837}}
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{{succession box| title= [U.S. Consul to Kingdom of Hawaii](/source/United_States_Minister_to_Hawaii) | before=[Alexander G. Abell](/source/Alexander_G._Abell) | after=[Elisha Hunt Allen](/source/Elisha_Hunt_Allen) | years= 1846–1850 }}
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Category:Middlebury College alumni
Category:Jacksonian United States representatives from New York (state)
Category:Oswego County district attorneys
Category:People from Shoreham, Vermont
Category:19th-century United States representatives

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