Ratliff Boon

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Ratliff Boon

Ratliff Boon (born January 18, 1781 in Franklin County , North Carolina , †  November 20, 1844 in Louisiana , Missouri ) was an American politician and in 1822 the second governor of the state of Indiana .

Early years and political advancement

Very early on, Boon and his parents moved to Warren County , Kentucky . There he attended elementary school and learned the trade of gunsmith. In 1809 he moved to what is now Warren County , Indiana. This county was founded in 1813 and Boon was the treasurer in charge of the county's finances.

After Indiana was admitted as a state in the United States in 1816, Boon was elected to the first House of Representatives of the new state. But he only stayed there for a year. In 1818 he was elected to the State Senate for the Democratic Republican Party and a year later he was elected lieutenant governor . When incumbent governor Jonathan Jennings resigned from office on September 12, 1822, to move to Congress , Boon had to end his current term by December 5, 1822. By the time he took office, the next gubernatorial elections had already taken place and William Hendricks had already been chosen as his successor. In the same elections in August 1822, Boon was re-elected lieutenant governor. He resumed this office after the end of his short time as governor.

Congressman

Boon resigned as lieutenant governor on January 30, 1824, because he wanted to run for a seat in Congress. Between 1825 and 1827 he represented the first constituency of his state in the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC. In 1826 he missed re-election, but two years later he returned as a Democrat in Congress, where he served from March 4, 1829 through to March 3, 1839 remained. There he was among other things chairman of the committee for the administration of the state-owned land. In 1836 an attempt to move from the House of Representatives to the US Senate failed . After retiring from Congress, he moved to Missouri. He died there in 1844.

Private life

Ratliff Boon was married to Deliah Anderson, with whom he had eight children. He was buried in Riverview Cemetery , Louisiana.

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SURNAME Boon, Ratliff
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American politician
DATE OF BIRTH January 18, 1781
PLACE OF BIRTH Franklin County , North Carolina
DATE OF DEATH November 20, 1844
Place of death Louisiana , Missouri