Joseph Platt (politician)

{{short description|American politician}}

{{for|the American physicist and academic administrator|Joseph Platt (university president)}}

{{Infobox officeholder

|name=Joseph Platt

|office=Member of the
House of Representatives
of the
Colony of Connecticut
from Norwalk[https://books.google.com/books?id=YCgBAAAAYAAJ&dq=Samuel+Keeler+norwalk&pg=PA77 An Historical Discourse in Commemoration of the Two-hundredth Anniversary of Norwalk]

|term_start=1705

|term_end=1748

|predecessor=

|alongside=

|successor=

|birth_date={{birth date|1672|02|17}}[https://books.google.com/books?id=vwYCAAAAYAAJ&dq=The%20ancient%20historical%20records%20of%20norwalk%2C%20connecticut&pg=PA186 The Ancient Historical Records of Norwalk, Connecticut]{{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20110927004559/http://www.ramapoughlenapenation.org/wp-docs/Norwalk.pdf Norwalk vol. 1]}}

|birth_place=Norwalk, Connecticut Colony"Pedigree Resource File," database, FamilySearch (http://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.2.1/9Q3D-L75 : accessed 2014-05-08), entry for Joseph Platt, submitted by msaperstein2730284.

|death_date={{death date and age|1748|06|12|1673|02|14}}

|death_place=Norwalk, Connecticut Colony

|restingplace=East Norwalk Historical Cemetery,
Norwalk, Connecticut

|residence=Norwalk, Connecticut Colony

|religion=

|spouse=Elizabeth Marvin (daughter of Matthew Marvin, Jr., m. November 6, 1700, d. 1703), Hannah Hanford (daughter of Reverend Thomas Hanford, m. January 26, 1704)

|children=Elizabeth Platt Cooke (b. 1701), Hannah Platt Sanford (b. 1704), Joseph Platt, Jr. (b. 1706)"Ancestral File," database, FamilySearch (http://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.2.1/M7VG-SVH : accessed 2014-05-08), entry for Joseph PLATT.

|occupation=

|rank=Captain

|battles=

|unit= Norwalk Trainband

}}

Joseph Platt (February 17, 1672 – June 12, 1748) was a member of the House of Representatives of the Colony of Connecticut from Norwalk.

He was the longest serving representative from Norwalk and served as a member of the Connecticut House of Representatives between 1705 and 1748, representing Norwalk in 38 sessions.[https://books.google.com/books?id=YCgBAAAAYAAJ&dq=%22an%20historical%20discourse%22%20connecticut%20assembly&pg=PA56 An Historical Discourse in Commemoration of the Two-hundredth Anniversary of Norwalk]

He was born on February 17, 1672, in Norwalk and is the youngest son of John Platt and Hannah Clark.

He received a grant of 10 acres of land from the town of Norwalk for his services in the "swamp fight," on February 21, 1698. Joseph was a town selectman for a period of nine years.

On June 3, 1723, he was appointed by a town meeting as chairman of committee to seat the new meeting-house.

On February 18, 1725-6, he was appointed at town meeting to a committee to obtain, and set stones for the entrance to the meeting house. At the same meeting, he was appointed to a committee to regulate the difficulties arising from minister Buckingham.

He was the justice of peace for 30 years.

He also served as a commissioner to draw the boundary line between Connecticut and New York, in 1720.

Joseph was Captain of the North Company, of the Norwalk Trainband.