Joseph Humphrey Sloss (12 October 1826-27 January 1911) was a member of the US House of Representatives (D-AL 6) from 4 March 1871 to 3 March 1875, succeeding William Crawford Sherrod and preceding Goldsmith W. Hewitt.
Biography[]
Joseph Humphrey Sloss was born in Somerville, Morgan County, Alabama in 1826, and he became a lawyer in St. Louis, Missouri and moved to Edwardsville, Illinois in 1849. He served in the State House from 1858 to 1859, and he went on to return to Alabama and serve in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War. He served in the US House of Representatives from 1871 to 1875, as a US Marshal for the Northern District of Alabama from 1877 to 1882, and as a federal court clerk in Huntsville. He died in 1911.