Carey A. Trimble

Carey A. Trimble

Carey Allen Trimble (born September 13, 1813 in Hillsboro , Highland County , Ohio , †  May 4, 1887 in Columbus , Ohio) was an American politician . Between 1859 and 1863 he represented the state of Ohio in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Carey Trimble visited the Pestalostian School in Philadelphia ( Pennsylvania ) and then the Stubb's Classical School in Newport ( Kentucky ). In 1833 he graduated from Ohio University in Athens . He then worked as a teacher for four years. After studying medicine at Cincinnati Medical College and his license to practice medicine in 1836, he began working in this profession in Chillicothe . Politically, he later became a member of the Republican Party founded in 1854 .

In the congressional election of 1858 Trimble was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the tenth constituency of Ohio , where he succeeded Democrat Joseph Miller on March 4, 1859 . After being re-elected, he was able to complete two legislative terms in Congress until March 3, 1863 . These were shaped by the events in the immediate run-up to the civil war and, from 1861, by the war itself.

Trimble was not re-elected in 1862. After his time in the US House of Representatives, he practiced as a doctor again. He later moved to Columbus, where he died on May 4, 1887. He was buried in Chillicothe.

Web links

• Carey A. Trimble in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Carey A. Trimble in the database of Find a Grave (English)