{{short description|American politician}} {{for|the American soldier and Medal of Honor recipient|Joseph Cable (Medal of Honor)}} <!-- This article was automatically created by User:polbot from http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=C000008. The prose may be stilted, and there may be grammatical and Wikification errors. Please improve in any way you see fit. --> {{Infobox officeholder | name =Joseph Cable | image = | state =Ohio | district ={{ushr|Ohio|17|17th}} | term_start =March 4, 1849 | term_end =March 3, 1853 | preceded =George Fries | succeeded =Wilson Shannon | party =Democratic | birth_date = {{birth date|1801|04|17}} | death_date = {{death date and age|1880|05|01|1801|04|17}} | birth_place = Jefferson County, Northwest Territory | death_place = Paulding, Ohio, U.S. | resting_place = Live Oak Cemetery | alma_mater = }} '''Joseph Cable''' (April 17, 1801 – May 1, 1880) was an American lawyer and politician who served as a U.S. representative from Ohio for two terms from 1849 to 1853. He was the great-grandfather of Congressman John Levi Cable.
==Life and career == Born in Jefferson County, then in the Territory Northwest of the River Ohio (now in the State of Ohio), Cable attended the public schools. He studied law. He was admitted to the bar and commenced practice in Jefferson County. He established and published the ''Jeffersonian and Democrat'' at Steubenville, Ohio, in 1831 and later the ''Ohio Patriot'' at New Lisbon, Ohio.
===Congress === Cable was elected as a Democrat to the Thirty-first and Thirty-second Congresses (March 4, 1849 – March 3, 1853), while living in Carroll County.<ref>{{cite book |title=Ohio in Congress from 1803 to 1901, with notes and sketches of senators and representatives |first=William A |last=Taylor |year=1900 |publisher=the XX Century Publishing Company |page=[https://archive.org/details/ohioincongressfr00tayl/page/197 197] |url=https://archive.org/details/ohioincongressfr00tayl}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |title=The Ohio Hundred Year Book: a Handbook of the Public Men and Public Institutions of Ohio ... |publisher=State of Ohio |editor-first=Elliott Howard |editor-last=Gilkey |year=1901 |page=611 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=oUkVAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA611}}</ref> He was not a candidate for renomination in 1852.
===Later life=== He moved to Sandusky, Ohio, in 1853 and published the ''Daily Sandusky Minor'', until moving to Van Wert in 1857 and establishing the ''American'' and later the ''Bulletin''. After a time living in Wauseon and publishing the ''Wauseon Republican'', he moved to Paulding, where he published the ''Political Review''.
==Death== He died on May 1, 1880, and was interred in Live Oak Cemetery.
==References== {{CongBio|C000008}} {{reflist|2}} {{Bioguide}}
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