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Joseph Harpur
Joseph
Jehosephat
Harpur
was an
Australian politician
.
He was born in
New South Wales
to
convicts
Joseph Harpur and
Sarah
Chidley
. He was a
public servant
and
clerk
, and active in
radical
and
temperance movements
. In
1861
he was
elected
to the
New South Wales Legislative Assembly
for
Patrick's Plains
, but he did not re-contest in 1864. Harpur
died
in
Sydney
in
1878
.