US Congressman, Lawyer. He was a United States Representative from the State of Massachusetts. He was born one of seven children as Joseph Gowing Kendall to the Honourable Jonas Kendall Jr. (1757-1844), who served as a Member of the Massachusetts State House of Representatives in 1800, a Member of the Massachusetts State Senate in 1808, and as a United States Representative from the State of Massachusetts from March 4, 1819, to March 3, 1821, and his wife Sarah "Sally" Gowing (1765-1829), in Leominster, Massachusetts, on October 27, 1788. He was educated locally and pursued classical studies before attending and graduating from the prestigious Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1810. Following his education, he taught at his alma mater Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, from 1812 to 1817, and then studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1818, and commenced his practice of law in Leominster, Massachusetts, shortly thereafter. He then took an interest in politics and was elected to serve a term as a Member of the Massachusetts State Senate from 1824 to 1828. He then decided to run for a seat in the United States Congress and was elected to succeed the outgoing United States Representative John Locke (1764-1855), on March 3, 1829. A Member of the Anti-Jacksonian Party, he then served Massachusetts's 6th District (Twenty-First Congress and Twenty-Second Congress), in the United States House of Representatives from March 4, 1829, to March 3, 1833. He was not a Candidate for renomination in 1832 and then retired. In total, he was elected in 1828, reelected in 1830, and was not a Candidate for renomination in 1832 and retired. Following his term in the United States Congress, he was succeeded in office by the incoming United States Representative George Grennell Jr. (1786-1877), on March 3, 1833. After leaving the United States Congress, he resumed his practice of law in Leominster, Massachusetts, and was also appointed and served a term as a Clerk of the Courts of Worcester County, Massachusetts, from 1833 until his death on October 2, 1847. He passed away from typhus fever in Worcester, Massachusetts, on October 2, 1847, at the age of 58, and he was buried in Evergreen Cemetery in Leominster, Massachusetts. He never married nor had any children.