Robert B. McAfee

Robert Breckinridge McAfee (born February 18, 1784 in Mercer County , Virginia , † March 12, 1849 ibid) was an American politician . Between 1824 and 1828 he was lieutenant governor of the state of Kentucky .

Career

Robert McAfee was born in what is now Kentucky. After his parents' death in 1795, future US Attorney General John Breckinridge became one of the boy's two guardians. Between 1795 and 1797 he graduated from Transylvania University . After a subsequent law degree and his license to practice law in 1801, he began to work in Franklin County in this profession. Politically, he joined the Democratic Republican Party founded by Thomas Jefferson . Between 1800 and 1812 he was a member of the Kentucky House of Representatives . Then he took part in the British-American War of 1812 . He rose to general (according to other sources to captain). Between 1819 and 1821 he was again a member of the state parliament. He was then elected to the Kentucky Senate, where he remained until 1824.

In 1824, McAfee was elected Lieutenant Governor of Kentucky alongside Joseph Desha . He held this office between 1824 and 1828. He was Deputy Governor and Chairman of the State Senate. Then he returned to the state legislature. In the meantime he had joined the movement around the future US President Andrew Jackson . He became a member of the Democratic Party founded by him in 1828 . In May 1832 he took part as a delegate to the Democratic National Convention in Baltimore , on which President Jackson was nominated for re-election. Jackson appointed him American envoy to New Granada in 1833 . He held this office until 1837. In 1841 he was re-elected to the Kentucky Senate. A year later he became a member and chairman of the Board of Visitors at the United States Military Academy at West Point . In 1845 he withdrew from political life and practiced as a private lawyer.

Robert McAfee was among other things a member of the Kentucky Historical Society . He also wrote a treatise on the War of 1812. He was married to Mary Cardwell since 1807 and died on March 12, 1849.

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SURNAME	McAfee, Robert B.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	McAfee, Robert Breckinridge (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American politician
DATE OF BIRTH	February 18, 1784
PLACE OF BIRTH	Mercer County , Virginia
DATE OF DEATH	March 12, 1849
Place of death	Mercer County , Kentucky