Joshua Blackford

Joshua Blackford (b 1925) was the son of President of the United States Hosea Blackford and Congresswoman Flora Hamburger. He lived most of his life in Philadelphia.

In 1943, during the Second Great War, he was conscripted into the US Army after shortly after his eighteenth birthday. His mother immediately offered to find a way to disqualify him from conscription despite her support of the war; she had refused to do the same thing for her brother, David Hamburger, during the Great War, which she did not support. Blackford refused his mother's offer and joined the Army. In the fall of 1943, he was still in training when General Irving Morrell's forces entered Georgia.