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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—KentuckyChristopher GREENUP
(1750-1818)
GREENUP, Christopher, a
Representative from Kentucky; born in Westmoreland County, Va., in
1750; completed academic studies; studied law; was admitted to the
bar in 1783 and commenced practice in Fayette County, Ky. (then a
part of Virginia); clerk of the district court at Harrodsburg
1785-1792; served in the Revolutionary War and attained the rank of
colonel; member of the Virginia house of delegates in 1785; member
of the conventions at Danville, Ky., in 1785 and 1788 to consider
separation from Virginia; moved to Frankfort, Ky., in 1792; upon
the admission of Kentucky as a State into the Union was elected as
an Anti-Administration candidate to the Second and Third
Congresses; reelected as a Republican to the Fourth Congress and
served from November 9, 1792, to March 3, 1797; member of the State
house of representatives in 1798; clerk of the State senate
1799-1802; appointed judge of the circuit court in 1802; Governor
of Kentucky 1804-1808; presidential elector on the Madison and
Clinton ticket in 1808; justice of the peace in Franklin County in
1812; one of the original trustees of Transylvania University,
Lexington, Ky.; died in Frankfort, Ky., April 27, 1818; interment
in State Cemetery.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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