George M. Bibb

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George M. Bibb

George Mortimer Bibb (born October 30, 1776 in Prince Edward County , Virginia , † April 14, 1859 in Georgetown (Washington, DC) ) was an American judge, politician, senator and treasury secretary .

Studies and professional career

After a general education at Hampden – Sydney College , the College of New Jersey , which he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts (BA) in 1792 , and the College of William & Mary , he completed a law degree . After being admitted to the bar , he initially worked in Virginia. He then opened his own law firm in Lexington in 1798 . From 1807 to 1808 he was the successor of Joseph Hamilton Daviess for the first time federal prosecutor for the district of Kentucky; he later held this office again from 1819 to 1824.

1808 he was appointed a Judge of the Court of Appeal of Kentucky ( Court of Appeals ), its president after the appointment by his father, the then Governor Charles Scott was the first time from 1809 to 1810 for a short time. After leaving the Senate in 1814, he returned to Lexington as a lawyer and then founded a law firm in Frankfort two years later . From 1827 to 1828 he was again President of the Kentucky Court of Appeals.

After leaving the Senate again, he served as Chancellor of the Louisville Chancellery between 1835 and 1844 .

After retiring from the office of Treasury Secretary, he set up practice as a lawyer in Washington, DC and was intermittent advisor to the Department of Justice in the years that followed .

Political career

Kentucky MP and Senator

After his permanent settlement in Kentucky, he began his political career in 1806. After an unsuccessful candidacy for the US Senate , he became a member of the Kentucky House of Representatives , to which he was re-elected in 1810 and 1817. In 1811 he was elected senator . As such, he represented the interests of his state until 1814.

In 1829 he was re-elected Senator for Kentucky. As a supporter of the Democratic Party founded by the newly elected President Andrew Jackson , he belonged to Congress this time until 1835 for a full term. From March 4, 1829 to March 3, 1931 he was chairman of the Senate Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads.

Treasury Secretary under President Tyler

Portrait of GM Bibb in the Treasury

On July 4, 1844, President John Tyler appointed him to succeed John Canfield Spencer as his fourth and final Treasury Secretary of his four-year term in the Cabinet.

At that time he was one of the oldest ministers ever appointed to this office. In his 1844 annual report, he not only presented the historical development of the US public finances since 1789, but also proposed the establishment of permanent bank balances in a fund , the proceeds of which should be used to reduce national debt . On the other hand, taxes and tariffs should increase government revenues . However, in his short term in office, Bibb did not succeed in reviving the fund, which already existed between 1789 and 1835 and through which the national debt of those years could be reduced.

With the end of President Tyler's tenure on March 7, 1844, he resigned from the Treasury Department.

Publications

  • Reports of Cases at Common Law and in Chancery in the Kentucky Court of Appeals. 1808-1811

Afterlife

The United States Coast Guard named the coast guard ship USCGC Bibb (WPG-31) in his honor in 1936 .

literature

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SURNAME Bibb, George M.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bibb, George Mortimer (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American Judge, Politician, Senator, and Treasury Secretary
DATE OF BIRTH October 30, 1776
PLACE OF BIRTH Prince Edward County , Virginia
DATE OF DEATH April 14, 1859
Place of death Georgetown (Washington, DC)