Jesse Bledsoe

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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

Web links

  • Jesse Bledsoe in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)