Tunstall Quarles

Tunstall Quarles (* around 1770 in King William County , Colony of Virginia , †  January 7, 1855 in Somerset , Kentucky ) was an American politician . Between 1817 and 1820 he represented the state of Kentucky in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Tunstall Quarles attended public schools in his home country. Around 1790 he and his parents came to Woodford County in what is now Kentucky. After studying law and becoming a lawyer, he began to work in this profession. Politically, he became a member of the Democratic Republican Party founded by Thomas Jefferson . He first became a member of the Kentucky House of Representatives in 1796 . He later moved to Somerset, Pulaski County . In 1811 and 1812 Quarles was again a member of the state parliament. During the British-American War of 1812 he equipped a company of the state militia, which he himself commanded, at his own expense. He then worked as a district judge.

In the congressional election of 1816 Quarles was elected to the United States House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the ninth constituency of Kentucky , where he succeeded Micah Taul on March 4, 1817 . After re-election in 1818, he could remain in Congress until his resignation on June 15, 1820 . Between 1821 and 1824 he was a tax in Jackson ( Missouri ). He then returned to Somerset, where he worked in agriculture and as a lawyer. In 1828 he was an MP and President in the Kentucky House of Representatives; In 1840 he was a member of the Kentucky Senate . Tunstall Quarles died on January 7, 1855 in Somerset, where he was also buried.

Web links

• Tunstall Quarles in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Tunstall Quarles in the database of Find a Grave (English)