Jonathan Condy

{{short description|American lawyer}}

Jonathan William Condy (1770–1828) was an American lawyer. At the time of his election as Clerk of the United States House of Representatives, he was a politically well connected young law student, and, backed by the Federalists, was elected to the office in a close 41–40 vote.{{Cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qGwuAAAAIAAJ&q=Jonathan+Condy&pg=PR8|title=Journal of the House of Representatives of the United States|first=United States Congress|last=House|date=November 23, 1977|publisher=U.S. Government Printing Office|via=Google Books}} He served from 1797 until 1799.

Condy was a member of the Philadelphia Bar.{{Cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3kc2AQAAMAAJ&q=%22Jonathan+william+Condy%22&pg=PA1193|title=Colonial Families of Philadelphia|first=John Woolf|last=Jordan|date=November 23, 1911|publisher=Lewis Publishing Company|via=Google Books}}

In 1796 he wrote a description of the Susquehanna River.{{Cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=oxIUAQAAMAAJ&q=%22Jonathan+william+Condy%22&pg=PA64|title=Opinions and Decisions of the Federal Power Commission|first=United States Federal Power|last=Commission|date=November 23, 1939|publisher=Federal Power Commission|via=Google Books}}

He was a leader of Emanuel Swedenborg's New Jerusalem Church in Philadelphia.{{Cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4TZKAAAAMAAJ&q=%22Jonathan+william+Condy%22&pg=PA114|title=The Newchurchman--extra. Nos. IV-XVI.: Containing a report on the trine to the central convention, and other documents for New-Church history ... some remarks on Wilks's Report and Mason's Letter, and an appendix of documentary matter|date=November 23, 1848|publisher=Printed and published for the Central convention, J. H. Jones, printer|via=Google Books}}