John Crowell (Alabama politician)

{{short description|American politician}}

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{{Infobox officeholder

|name = Joseph Crowell

|image = File:Historic American Buildings Survey W. N. Manning, Photographer, July 18, 1935 TOMB MONUMENT OF COL. JOHN CROWELL, SR. AT FORT MITCHELL, ALABAMA - Crowell-Cantey-Alexander House, HABS ALA,57-FOMI,1-15.tif

|caption = Crowell's tomb in Fort Mitchell, Alabama

|state = Alabama

|district = {{ushr|AL|AL|at-large}}

|term_start = December 14, 1819

|term_end = March 3, 1821

|predecessor = Himself (Delegate)

|successor = Gabriel Moore

|office1 = Delegate to the
U.S. House of Representatives
from the Alabama Territory's
at-large district

|term_start1 = January 29, 1818

|term_end1 = March 3, 1819

|predecessor1 = Constituency established

|successor1 = Himself (Representative)

|birth_name = Joseph John Crowell

|birth_date = {{birth date|1780|9|18}}

|birth_place = Halifax County, North Carolina, U.S.

|death_date = {{death date and age|1846|6|25|1780|9|18}}

|death_place = Fort Mitchell, Alabama, U.S.

|party = Democratic-Republican

}}

Joseph John Crowell (September 18, 1780 – June 25, 1846) was born in Halifax County, North Carolina. He was educated locally. In the War of 1812, he helped to recruit a regiment and was commissioned as a colonel. He moved to Alabama in 1815, serving as Congressional Delegate from the Alabama Territory. In the election of 1818, he became the first member of the House of Representatives from the new state of Alabama. When he retired after one term in 1821, President James Monroe appointed him the United States Indian agent to the Creek Indians. He died at Fort Mitchell, Alabama in 1846.