Thomas Montgomery (politician, 1779)

Thomas Montgomery (* 1779 in Nelson County , Virginia , †  April 2, 1828 in Stanford , Kentucky ) was an American politician . Between 1813 and 1823 he represented the state of Kentucky twice in the US House of Representatives .

Career

After studying law and being admitted to the bar, Thomas Montgomery began working in this profession at Stanford. In the local Lincoln County he was a district judge. Politically, Montgomery was a member of the Democratic Republican Party founded by Thomas Jefferson . In 1811 he was a member of the Kentucky House of Representatives . In the congressional election of 1812 he was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC , in the then newly created tenth constituency of Kentucky , where he took up his new mandate on March 4, 1813. Since he was not re-elected in 1814, he could only hold one term in Congress until March 3, 1815 . This was shaped by the events of the British-American War .

After the resignation of the MP Tunstall Quarles , Montgomery was elected in the due by-election for the ninth seat of Kentucky as his successor in Congress, where he took up his mandate on August 1, 1820. After he was confirmed in the regular congressional elections of 1820, he could remain in the US House of Representatives until March 3, 1823. There he was chairman of the committee for the control of public expenditure from 1821 to 1823. After leaving Congress, Thomas Montgomery retired from politics. He died in Stanford on April 2, 1828.

Web links

• Thomas Montgomery (politician, 1779) in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)