Micah Taul

Micah Taul

Micah Taul (born May 14, 1785 in Bladensburg , Maryland , †  May 27, 1850 in Mardisville , Alabama ) was an American politician . Between 1815 and 1817 he represented the state of Kentucky in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Micah Taul and his parents came to what would later become the state of Kentucky in 1787. There he received a private school education. After studying law and being admitted to the bar in 1801, he began to work in this profession in Monticello . In the same year he was a clerk at the Wayne County District Court . During the British-American War of 1812 he was a colonel in a volunteer unit from Wayne County.

Taul was a member of the Democratic Republican Party . In the congressional election of 1814 he was elected to the United States House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the ninth constituency of Kentucky , where he succeeded Samuel Hopkins on March 4, 1815 . Since he refused to run again in 1816, he could only complete one legislative period in Congress until March 3, 1817 .

After leaving the US House of Representatives, Micah Taul returned to work as a lawyer. In 1826 he moved to Winchester , Tennessee , where he also practiced in his profession. 20 years later, in 1846, he moved to Mardisville, Alabama. There he dealt with agricultural matters until his death on May 27, 1850. Micah Taul was the grandfather of Taul Bradford (1835-1883), who was also a member of Congress as a representative of Alabama.

Web links

• Micah Taul in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Micah Taul in the database of Find a Grave (English)