Thomas Chilton

Thomas Chilton (born July 30, 1798 in Lancaster , Garrard County , Kentucky , †  August 15, 1854 in Montgomery , Texas ) was an American politician . Between 1827 and 1835 he represented the state of Kentucky twice in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Thomas Chilton attended public schools in Paris . After a subsequent law degree and his admission as a lawyer, he began to practice in Owingsville in his new profession. At the same time he embarked on a political career. In 1819 he was elected to the Kentucky House of Representatives. At that time he moved to Elizabethtown .

After the death of Congressman William Singleton Young , there were by-elections in the eleventh constituency , which John Calhoon initially won against Chilton. However, since there were irregularities, the election was repeated. This time Chilton won, who took up his new mandate in Congress on December 22, 1827 . After a re-election in the regular elections of 1828 , Chilton was able to represent his district in the US House of Representatives until March 3, 1831. In the elections of 1830 he was not confirmed. He was a supporter of Andrew Jackson at the time . He became a member of its Democratic Party .

In the early 1830s, Chilton fell out with Jackson and his party. After leaving Congress, he initially practiced as a lawyer again. In 1832 he was an elector in the presidential election. He voted for Henry Clay , who ran unsuccessfully against President Jackson. In the congressional elections of 1832 Chilton was elected as a candidate for the short-lived National Republican Party in the sixth district of Kentucky in the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC , where he succeeded Joseph Lecompte on March 4, 1833 . Since he refused to run again in 1834, he was only able to complete one further term in Congress until March 3, 1835 . This was determined by the heated discussions about Jackson's policy. It was about the controversial implementation of the Indian Removal Act , the nullification crisis with the state of South Carolina and banking policy.

After his final departure from Congress, Chilton initially worked as a lawyer again. He was also active in the church field. He moved to Talladega , Alabama . In his new home state, he chaired a conference of his Baptist Church in 1841, which took place in Montgomery . Eventually he gave up his legal profession in favor of his religious activities. From 1851 he worked as a clergyman in Houston and later in Montgomery, Texas. He died there in 1854.

Thomas Chilton is considered to be the co-author of the memoirs of his friend David Crockett . He was the grandfather of Horace Chilton (1853-1932), who twice represented the State of Texas in the US Senate between 1891 and 1901 . He was also the father-in-law of Congressman Franklin Welsh Bowdon (1817-1857) from Alabama.

Web links

• Thomas Chilton in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Thomas Chilton in the database of Find a Grave (English)