Stephen Ormsby

Stephen Ormsby (* 1759 in County Sligo , Ireland , †  1844 in Louisville , Kentucky ) was an American politician . Between 1811 and 1817 he represented the state of Kentucky in the US House of Representatives .

Career

The exact date of birth of Stephen Ormsby is unknown. In his childhood he came to Philadelphia , Pennsylvania from his Irish homeland . There he received a good elementary school education. After a subsequent law degree and his admission as a lawyer in 1786, he began to work in Danville in this profession. In 1787 he was an assistant district attorney in Jefferson County . In 1790 he took part in an Indian campaign as a brigadier general of the militia. In 1791 he became a district judge in Jefferson County; from 1802 to 1810 he was again active as a judge.

Politically, Ormsby was a member of the Democratic Republican Party founded by Thomas Jefferson . In 1796 he was an elector in the presidential election. In the congressional elections of 1810 he was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the third constituency of Kentucky , where he succeeded Henry Crist on March 4, 1811 . In the following congressional elections, he lost in his constituency to Richard Mentor Johnson . After the death of John Simpson, elected candidate in the newly created eighth district, who died before the legislature began, Ormsby was elected the first congressman for that district when the by-election was due. On April 20, 1813 he was able to take up his new mandate. After re-election in 1814, he remained in Congress until March 3, 1817. The British-American War fell during his time in the US House of Representatives .

Ormsby lost to Richard Clough Anderson in the 1816 election . In 1817 he was named director of the Second Bank of the United States Louisville branch . He died there in 1844.

Web links

• Stephen Ormsby in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Stephen Ormsby in the database of Find a Grave (English)