{{short description|American politician}} {{Infobox officeholder | name = Joseph Hammons | image = | state = New Hampshire | district = at-large | term_start = March 4, 1829 | term_end = March 3, 1833 | preceded = Titus Brown | succeeded = Joseph M. Harper | birth_date = {{Birth date|1787|03|03}} | birth_place = {{nowrap|Alstead, Cheshire County<br>New Hampshire, USA}} | death_date = {{Death date and age|1836|03|29|1787|03|03|mf=yes}} | death_place = {{nowrap|Farmington, Strafford County<br>New Hampshire, USA}} | resting_place = Hammons Family Cemetery<br>Farmington, Strafford County<br>New Hampshire, USA | party = Jacksonian | other_party = | spouse = | relations = | children = | alma_mater = | occupation = Physician<br>Politician | profession = | signature = | website = | footnotes = }}
'''Joseph Hammons''' (March 3, 1787 – March 29, 1836) was an American politician and a United States representative from New Hampshire.
==Early life== Hammons was born in Cornish, York County, Maine, and educated by private tutors and in the common schools. In addition, he studied medicine in Ossipee, Carroll County, New Hampshire and commenced practice in Farmington, Strafford County, New Hampshire in 1817. He was the only physician in town for many years.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Davis, Bryant, Lawton|first1=B. V., A. J., P. L.|title=The Town Register Farmington, Milton, Wakefield, Middleton, Brookfield, 1907-8 Mitchell's Town Registers|year=1908|publisher=Mitchell-Cony Company, 1908|page=38|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qXwUAAAAYAAJ&q=Dr.+Joseph+Hammons&pg=PA38|accessdate=31 July 2014}}</ref>
==Career== Elected as a Jacksonian to the Twenty-first and Twenty-second Congresses, Hammons served as United States Representative for the state of New Hampshire from (March 4, 1829 – March 3, 1833).<ref>{{cite book|last1=New-Hampshire Medical Society|title=Transactions of the New Hampshire Medical Society ...|year=1879|publisher=1879 New-Hampshire Medical Society|page=91|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YeTniIsn2BYC&q=Joseph+hammons+1787+-+1836&pg=PA91|accessdate=31 July 2014}}</ref> After leaving Congress, he continued his practice and was postmaster at Dover, Strafford County, New Hampshire from June 1833 until his death.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Sprague|first1=John Francis|title=Sprague's Journal of Maine History, Volumes 9-10|year=1922|publisher=John Francis Sprague, 1922|page=151|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GrQaAQAAMAAJ&q=Joseph+hammons+1787+-+1836&pg=RA1-PA151|accessdate=31 July 2014}}</ref>
==Death== Hammons died in Farmington, Strafford County, New Hampshire, on March 29, 1836 (age 49 years, 26 days). He is interred at the Hammons Family Cemetery, Farmington, Strafford County, New Hampshire.
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