George L. Kinnard

George L. Kinnard (* 1803 in Pennsylvania , †  November 26, 1836 in Cincinnati , Ohio ) was an American politician . Between 1833 and 1836 he represented the state of Indiana in the US House of Representatives .

Career

The exact date and place of birth of George Kinnard are not known. In his youth, he moved to Tennessee with his widowed mother , where he attended public schools. In 1823 he came to Indianapolis , Indiana. After studying law and admitting to the bar, he began practicing the profession in Marion County . In 1826 and 1827 he was an assessor in this district. Politically, Kinnard joined the movement around the future President Andrew Jackson in the 1820s and became a member of the Democratic Party founded by this in 1828 .

Between 1827 and 1830, Kinnard was a member of the Indiana House of Representatives ; from 1831 to 1835 he headed the land surveying authority in his home district. For a few years he was also a state auditor and a colonel in the state militia. In the congressional elections of 1832 , Kinnard was elected to the then newly created sixth constituency of Indiana in the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC , where he took up his new mandate on March 4, 1833. After a re-election he could remain in Congress until his death on November 26, 1836 . There was heated discussion of President Jackson's policies in those years. It was about the controversial implementation of the Indian Removal Act , the nullification crisis with the state of South Carolina and the banking policy of the president.

George Kinnard died as a result of an injury sustained in the explosion of the steamship "Flora" on the Ohio River .

Web links

• George L. Kinnard in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• George L. Kinnard in the database of Find a Grave (English)