Francis Bristow

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Francis Marion Bristow (born August 11, 1804 in Clark County , Kentucky , †  June 10, 1864 in Elkton , Kentucky) was an American politician . In the years 1854 and 1855 and again from 1859 to 1861 he represented the state of Kentucky in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Francis Bristow had a good education. After a subsequent law degree and his admission as a lawyer, he began to work in Elkton in this profession. At the same time he embarked on a political career. Between 1831 and 1833 he was an MP in the Kentucky House of Representatives . In 1846 he was elected to the State Senate. Three years later, in 1849, Bristow attended a meeting to revise the constitution of his home state. He was a member of the Whig Party .

After the death of MP Presley Ewing in September 1854, Bristow was elected in the third constituency of Kentucky as his successor in the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC , where he took up his new mandate on December 4, 1854. By March 3, 1855, he ended the legislative period started by his predecessor. After the Whigs disbanded in the late 1850s, Bristow joined the short-lived Opposition Party . In 1858 he was re- elected to Congress in the third district of Kentucky as their candidate . There he completed a full legislative period between March 4, 1859 and March 3, 1861 as the successor to Warner Underwood , which was marked by the tensions in the immediate run-up to the Civil War . In the spring of 1861 he was a member of a negotiating commission that unsuccessfully tried to prevent the outbreak of civil war in the federal capital, Washington.

After the end of his time in the US House of Representatives, Bristow practiced again as a lawyer. He died in Elkton on June 10, 1864.

Web links

  • Francis Bristow in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)