{{Short description|American politician (1773–1812)}} {{other people}} {{Infobox officeholder | name = Joseph Bryan | image = JosephBryanGA.jpg | birth_date = August 18, 1773 | birth_place = Savannah, Georgia, U.S. | education = University of Oxford | relations = Jonathan Bryan (grandfather) | state = Georgia | district = at-large | term_start = March 4, 1803 | term_end = 1806 | successor = Dennis Smelt | predecessor = ''District established'' | party = Democratic-Republican | death_place = Wilmington Island, Georgia, U.S. | death_date = September 12, 1812 }} '''Joseph Bryan''' (August 18, 1773 – September 12, 1812) was an American politician who served as a member of the United States House of Representatives for Georgia's at-large congressional district from 1803 to 1806.

== Early life == Bryan was born Savannah, Georgia. He was educated by private tutors and attended the University of Oxford in England.{{citation needed|date=March 2026}}

== Career == Bryan traveled in France during the American Revolutionary War. He later engaged in the slave trades on Wilmington Island, Georgia,<ref>{{Cite book |last=Bulloch |first=Joseph Gaston Baillie |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lXkxAAAAMAAJ&dq=Joseph+Bryan+Congress+Georgia&pg=PA75 |title=A History and Genealogy of the Families of Bellinger and De Veaux and Other Families |date=1895 |publisher=Morning News Print |language=en}}</ref> and Savannah, Georgia.

Bryan was elected as a Republican to the 8th and 9th United States congresses and served from March 4, 1803, until his resignation in 1806.{{citation needed|date=March 2026}}

He engaged in planting and died on his estate, ''Nonchalance'', Wilmington Island, near Savannah in 1812. He was buried in the family burial ground on his estate.{{citation needed|date=March 2026}}

Bryan's grandfather was Jonathan Bryan, who assisted James Edward Oglethorpe in setting out the Savannah colony and served in the Revolutionary War.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Meldrim |first=Mrs. Peter W. |title=Some Early Epitaphs in Georgia |year=1924 |pages=34}}</ref>

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