John Milton Elliott

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Statue of John Milton Elliott at the Boyd County Courthouse in Catlettsburg , Kentucky

John Milton Elliott (born May 16, 1820 on the banks of the Clinch River in Scott County , Virginia , † March 26, 1879 in Frankfort , Kentucky ) was an American lawyer and politician ( Democratic Party ).

Career

His family moved to Morgan County (now Elliott County ), Kentucky, in his early childhood , where he attended community schools. Elliott graduated from Emory and Henry College in 1841 . He studied law , was admitted to the bar and then began practicing in Prestonsburg in 1843 .

Elliott was a member of the Kentucky House of Representatives in 1847 . He was then elected to the 33rd US Congress and re - elected to the two subsequent US Congresses . He worked there from March 4, 1853 to March 3, 1859. During this time he chaired the Committee on Public Expenditures ( 35th US Congress ). In 1858 he decided against running again and returned to his practice as a lawyer after the end of his third term.

Elliott was again a member of the Kentucky House of Representatives in 1861. He was elected to the Provisional Confederate Congress and the 1st and 2nd Confederate Congresses. After the war , he moved to Bath County, Kentucky. He served as a district judge between 1868 and 1874 and then as a judge at the court of appeal between 1876 and 1879.

Murdered by a fellow judge

On 26 March 1879, Judge John Milton Elliott and left Thomas Hines , the Kentucky State House when she a judge from Henry County (Kentucky), Colonel Thomas Buford met. His late sister lost her land after being unable to repay a $ 20,000 debt. Elliott had decided against her in a lawsuit in which she tried to save her property.

After Hines had turned over and was gone, asked Buford Elliott if he on Snipejagd wanted to go as twelve he him bluntly filled with a double-barreled shotgun shot shot as he had sworn to his sister's grave there. Hines inspects the body when Buford turned himself in to an assistant sheriff who rushed over to see what had happened.

News of the assassination spread across the country. The New York Times said the murder did not take place in any civilized region other than Kentucky or some other southern states.

aftermath

Buford filed a motion not guilty of insanity during the act. The jury found him after an initial 6: 6-Patt actually incompetent. Buford was admitted to the Central Kentucky Insane Asylum in Anchorage, Kentucky, but where he broke out in 1882 and fled to Indiana , from where he could not be extradited. He voluntarily returned to the institution in 1884, where he died on February 12, 1885.

Elliott was buried in the State Cemetery in Frankford, Kentucky. His wife had a statue erected in his honor in front of the Boyd County courthouse in Catlettsburg, Kentucky. According to him, Elliott County named in Kentucky.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Assassination of Judge John M Elliott by Lewis Franklin Johnson, The Baldwin law book company, incorporated, 1916, p. 222
  2. ^ The Kentucky encyclopedia by John E. Kleber, University Press of Kentucky, 1992, ISBN 9780813117720 , p. 291
  3. ↑ Johnson, pp. 205, 210
  4. ↑ a b c Kleber, page 291
  5. ↑ Johnson, pp. 210, 220, 221
  6. ^ Johnson, p. 222

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personal data
SURNAME Elliott, John Milton
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American lawyer and politician
DATE OF BIRTH May 16, 1820
PLACE OF BIRTH Scott County , Virginia
DATE OF DEATH March 26, 1879
Place of death near Frankfort , Kentucky