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Joseph Ball (May 2, 1649 – July 11, 1711) was an English-born justice, vestryman, lieutenant colonel, and Burgess in the Colony of Virginia. [ 1 ] Ball was the father of Mary Ball Washington and the maternal grandfather of George Washington , the First President of the United States .
Col. Joseph Matthäus Ball, grandfather of Gen. George Washington, was born in May 1649 in England, settled in Virginia during a period of population growth in the region when the Millenbeck community was in Northumberland County prior to the formation of Lancaster County. [2] [3]
Joseph or Joe Ball may refer to: Joseph Ball (Virginia public servant) (1649–1711), English-born justice, vestryman, lieutenant colonel, and Burgess in the Colony of Virginia; Joseph T. Ball (1804–1861), African-American Latter Day Saint; Joseph Lancaster Ball (1852–1933), English architect; Joseph Henry Ball (1861–1931), British architect
Joseph Hurst Ball (November 3, 1905 – December 18, 1993) was an American journalist, politician and businessman. Ball served as a Republican senator from Minnesota from 1940 to 1949. He was a conservative in domestic policy and a leading foe of labor unions who helped draft the Taft-Hartley Act of 1947 .
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Joseph T. Ball (February 21, 1804 – September 20, 1861) was an early convert (and later excommunicated member) of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and a Black man who held the priesthood prior to the priesthood ban instituted in 1849.
Democratic Mayor of Minneapolis and future Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey defeated incumbent Republican Joseph H. Ball, who sought a third term in the Senate. This is the first time a Democrat won a Senate seat in Minnesota through a popular vote election, as they last held a seat in 1901, and last won this seat in 1859.
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