Isham Talbot

Isham Talbot

Isham Talbot (* 1773 in Talbot , Bedford County , Colony of Virginia , †  September 25, 1837 in Frankfort , Kentucky ) was an American lawyer and politician of the Democratic Republican Party , who represented the state of Kentucky in the US Senate .

Originally from Virginia, Isham Talbot moved with his parents to Kentucky in 1784, where the family settled in Harrodsburg . After finishing school, he studied law , was admitted to the bar and began practicing in Versailles . He later moved to Frankfort, where he also worked legally.

Between 1812 and 1815 Talbot was a member of the Kentucky Senate . He left there to represent his state in the US Senate; in a by-election he received the mandate of the resigned Jesse Bledsoe , which he filled from February 2, 1815 to March 3, 1819. In the year after he left the Senate, he returned to the Chamber of Parliament, where he again took the place of a resigned politician; this time it was William Logan . Talbot's second term in Congress lasted from October 19, 1820 to March 3, 1825. He then worked again as a lawyer, before he died in 1837 on his plantation near Frankfort.

Web links

• Isham Talbot in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Isham Talbot in the database of Find a Grave (English)