Jesse Bledsoe
Jesse Bledsoe (born April 6, 1776 in Culpeper County , Colony of Virginia , † June 25, 1836 in Nacogdoches , Texas ) was an American lawyer and politician ( Democratic Republican Party ). He was the uncle of Congressmen Robert Emmett Bledsoe Baylor and Thomas Chilton, and Confederate MP William Parish Chilton .
Life
Jesse Bledsoe moved to Kentucky with one of his older brothers when he was a child. There he attended Transylvania Seminary and Transylvania University in Lexington . He studied law , was admitted to the bar around 1800 and then practiced. Bledsoe also had a political career. He was appointed Secretary of State in 1808. Then in 1812 he was a member of the Kentucky House of Representatives . He was elected to the US Senate , where he remained from March 4, 1813 until his resignation on December 24, 1814. He then held a seat in the Kentucky Senate between 1817 and 1820 .
He was a judge in the Lexington district in 1822. He was also a law professor at Transylvania University and pastor of the Christian Church . Bledsoe moved to Mississippi in 1833 and to Texas in 1835, where he died a year later.
literature
- A history of Kentucky: embracing gleanings, reminiscences, antiquities, natural curiosities, statistics, and biographical sketches of pioneers, soldiers, jurists, lawyers, statesmen, divines, mechanics, farmers, merchants, and other leading men, of all occupations and pursuits von William B. Allen, Bradley & Gilbert (1872), 260
Web links
- Jesse Bledsoe in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)
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SURNAME | Bledsoe, Jesse |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American lawyer and politician |
DATE OF BIRTH | April 6, 1776 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Culpeper County , Virginia |
DATE OF DEATH | June 25, 1836 |
Place of death | near Nacogdoches , Texas |