Joseph E. McDonald

Joseph E. McDonald
United States Senator
from Indiana
In office
March 4, 1875  March 3, 1881
Preceded by Daniel D. Pratt
Succeeded by Benjamin Harrison
Attorney General of Indiana
In office
1856–1860
Preceded by James Morrison
Succeeded by James G. Jones
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from Indiana's 8th district
In office
March 4, 1849  March 3, 1851
Preceded by John Pettit
Succeeded by Daniel Mace
Personal details
Born Joseph Ewing McDonald
August 29, 1819
Butler County, Ohio
Died June 21, 1891(1891-06-21) (aged 71)
Indianapolis, Indiana
Political party Democratic
Alma mater Wabash College, Asbury University
Profession Politician, Lawyer, Saddler

Joseph Ewing McDonald (August 29, 1819 June 21, 1891) was a United States Representative and Senator from Indiana.

Life and career

McDonald was born in Butler County, Ohio, the son of Eleanor (Piatt) and John McDonald. He moved with his mother to Montgomery County, Indiana in 1826 and apprenticed to the saddler’s trade when twelve years of age in Lafayette, Indiana. He attended Wabash College, (Crawfordsville) and graduated from Asbury University (Greencastle, Indiana; now DePauw University) in 1840. He studied law in Lafayette and was admitted to the bar in 1843, after which he practiced. He was prosecuting attorney from 1843 to 1847 and in the latter year moved to Crawfordsville where he practiced law until 1859.

McDonald was elected as a Democrat to the Thirty-first Congress, serving from March 4, 1849 to March 3, 1851. He was not a candidate for renomination in 1850, and was elected attorney general of Indiana in 1856 and was reelected in 1858. He moved to Indianapolis in 1859, was an unsuccessful candidate for Governor of Indiana in 1864, and was elected to the United States Senate and served from March 4, 1875, to March 3, 1881. He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection. While in the Senate he was chairman of the Committee on Public Lands (Forty-sixth Congress).

McDonald died in Indianapolis in 1891; interment was in Crown Hill Cemetery.

References

United States House of Representatives
Preceded by
John Pettit
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from Indiana's 8th congressional district

March 4, 1849 – March 3, 1851
Succeeded by
Daniel Mace
United States Senate
Preceded by
Daniel D. Pratt
U.S. Senator (Class 1) from Indiana
18751881
Served alongside: Oliver P. Morton, Daniel W. Voorhees
Succeeded by
Benjamin Harrison
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