Buckner Thruston

Buckner Thruston

Buckner Thruston (born February 9, 1763 in Petsoe Parish , Gloucester County , Colony of Virginia , †  August 30, 1845 in Washington DC ) was an American politician of the Democratic Republican Party who represented the state of Kentucky in the US Senate .

Thruston graduated from William and Mary College in Williamsburg . He studied law and moved to Lexington , which at the time was still part of Virginia. After being admitted to the bar, he practiced as a lawyer.

His political career began in 1789 with membership in the Virginia House of Representatives . After Kentucky was promoted to a state , Thruston got a job as a clerk in the local Senate . He was also a member of a border dispute settlement commission between Kentucky and Virginia.

In 1791 Buckner Thruston served as federal judge for the Kentucky Judicial District; from 1802 to 1803 he was a member of the circuit court . The appeal to federal judge in the Orleans Territory in 1804, he dismissed.

In the same year Thruston was elected to the US Senate for the Democratic Republican Party. He belonged to this from March 4, 1805 until his resignation on December 18, 1809. He returned to justice and accepted a position as a judge on the United States Circuit Court for the District of Columbia , where he remained until his death in 1845.

Web links

• Buckner Thruston in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Buckner Thruston in the database of Find a Grave (English)