John Duncan Young

John Duncan Young

John Duncan Young (born September 22, 1823 in Owingsville , Bath County , Kentucky , †  December 26, 1910 in Mount Sterling , Kentucky) was an American politician . Between 1873 and 1875 he represented the state of Kentucky in the US House of Representatives .

Career

John Young attended public schools in his home country. After a subsequent law degree and his admission as a lawyer in 1854, he began to work in Owingsville in this profession. Later he also worked in agriculture. During the reign of President Franklin Pierce (1853-1857), Young was acting US Marshal for Kentucky. He served as a judge in Bath County between 1858 and 1862 and again in 1866 and 1867. Politically, he became a member of the Democratic Party . He was first elected to Congress in 1866 ; there he was refused his seat.

In the congressional elections of 1872 Young was then elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC , in the then re-established tenth constituency of Kentucky , where he took up his new mandate on March 4, 1873. Since he renounced another candidacy in 1874, he was only able to complete one legislative period in the US House of Representatives until March 3, 1875. After serving in Congress, Young returned to farming. Between 1884 and 1889 he was railway commissioner in his home state. He was then again a judge in Bath County from 1890 to 1895. He died on December 26, 1910 in Mount Sterling.

Web links

• John Duncan Young in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• John Duncan Young in the database of Find a Grave (English)