Joseph Healy

Born in Newton, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, Healy completed his preparatory studies, and worked at farming and as an inn keeper.

Healy became a member of the New Hampshire Senate in 1824.

Elected by a 4,000 majority over Federalist, Ezekiel Webster,{{cite book|last1=Wight|first1=William Ward|title=The Wights: A Record of Thomas Wight of Dedham and Medfield and of His Descendants, 1635-1890 Genealogy and local history|year=1890|publisher=Swain & Tate, 1890|page=43|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=t-QUAAAAYAAJ&q=Joseph+Healy+-+new+hampshire&pg=PA43|accessdate=30 August 2014}} as an Adams candidate to the Nineteenth and Twentieth Congresses, Healy served as a United States Representative from the state of New Hampshire from (March 4, 1825 – March 3, 1829).

After leaving Congress, Healy was a member of the New Hampshire Executive Council from 1829 to 1832.{{cite book|last1=United States. Congress, O. M. Enyart|title=A biographical congressional directory, 1774 to 1903: The Continental Congress: September 5, 1774, to October 21, 1788, inclusive. The United States Congress: the First Congress to the Fifty-seventh Congress, March 4, 1903, inclusive|year=1903|publisher=Govt print. off., 1903 - United States|page=[https://archive.org/details/abiographicalco00conggoog/page/n615 588]|url=https://archive.org/details/abiographicalco00conggoog|quote=Joseph Healy - New Hampshire Executive Council.|accessdate=30 August 2014}} He resumed agricultural pursuits and the hotel business.

Healy died in Washington, Sullivan County, New Hampshire on October 10, 1861 (age 85 years, 50 days). He is interred at Old Cemetery, Washington, New Hampshire.

Son of John Healy and Mary Wight Healy, he married Ruth Jaquith on December 21, 1801, and their son, Harvey was born December 24, 1802. After her death on June 19, 1807, he married Sally Copeland on February 2, 1808, and they had two daughters, Clara and Louisa; and three sons, John Plummer Healy,{{cite book|last1=New England Historic Genealogical Society|title=Volume 8 of Memorial Biographies of the New England Historic Genealogical Society: Towne Memorial Fund. V. 1-9: 1845-97, New England Historic Genealogical Society|year=1907|publisher=The Society, 1907|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=A3MtAAAAYAAJ&q=Joseph+Healy+-+new+hampshire&pg=PA84|accessdate=30 August 2014}} Langdon Healy, and Sullivan Wight Healy.{{cite web|title=Joseph Healy|url=http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~mabiog/Middlesex_County/healyjos.htm|publisher=Ancestry.com|accessdate=30 August 2014}}

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