Joseph Lecompte

Joseph Lecompte (born December 15, 1797 in Woodford County , Kentucky , †  April 25, 1851 in Henry County , Kentucky) was an American politician . Between 1825 and 1833 he represented the state of Kentucky in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Joseph Lecompte and his parents moved to Henry County as a child. The family settled in Lecomptes Bottom on the Kentucky River . There Joseph attended public schools. Later he worked in agriculture. During the British-American War he was a soldier in a unit from Kentucky. Lecompte also took part in the Battle of New Orleans . Politically, he first became a member of the Democratic-Republican Party . In the 1820s he joined the movement around the future President Andrew Jackson and became a member of the Democratic Party founded by him in 1828 . Between 1819 and 1844 he sat five times as an MP in the Kentucky House of Representatives . He was also a major in the state militia.

In the congressional elections of 1824 Lecompte was elected to the United States House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the sixth constituency of Kentucky , where he succeeded David White on March 4, 1825 . After three re-elections, he was able to complete four legislative terms in Congress by March 3, 1833 . These were initially shaped between the heated discussions between the supporters of President John Quincy Adams and those of Andrew Jackson. Since President Jackson took office in 1829, there has been heated debate inside and outside of Congress about its policies. It was about the controversial enforcement of the Indian Removal Act , the conflict with the state of South Carolina , which culminated in the nullification crisis , and the banking policy of the president.

In 1832 Joseph Lecompte decided not to run again. In the following years he worked again in agriculture. In 1850 he was a delegate to a conference to revise the Kentucky Constitution. He died on April 25, 1851.

Web links

• Joseph Lecompte in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Joseph Lecompte in the database of Find a Grave (English)