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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—LouisianaPOSEY, Thomas
(1750—1818)
Senate Years of Service:
1812-1813
Party:
Democratic Republican
POSEY, Thomas, a Senator from Louisiana; born in Fairfax County, Va., July 9, 1750; received a limited schooling; moved to the western frontier of Virginia in 1769; served in the Virginia militia in the French and Indian wars; member of the Virginia committee of correspondence; at the outbreak of the Revolutionary War was appointed captain in a Virginia regiment; promoted to the rank of major in 1778 and the following year was made colonel; was at the surrender of Yorktown in 1781; held various county and militia offices; appointed brigadier general in 1793 and participated in campaigns against the Indians; moved to Kentucky in 1794; served in the State senate and was its presiding officer in 1805 and 1806; lieutenant governor of Kentucky for four years; major general of Kentucky levies after 1809; moved to the Attakapas region of Louisiana; appointed to the United States Senate from Louisiana to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of John N. Destrehan and served from October 8, 1812, to February 4, 1813; unsuccessful candidate for election to fill the vacancy; Governor of Indiana Territory 1813-1816; unsuccessful candidate for governor of Indiana; appointed Indian agent in 1816 and held the position until his death in Shawneetown, Ill., on March 19, 1818; interment in Westwood Cemetery.
Bibliography
Dictionary of American Biography
; Posey, John Thornton. General Thomas Posey: Son of the American Revolution
. East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 1992; Posey, John Thornton. “Governor Thomas Posey: The Son of George Washington?” Indiana Magazine of History
86 (March 1990): 28-49.
Esarey, Logan, ed. Messages and Letters of William Henry Harrison
. 2 vols. 1922. Reprint. New York: Arno Press, 1975. Vol. 2 includes messages and letters of Thomas Posey, 1813-1816.
Hall, James. “Memoir of Thomas Posey, Major-General, and Governor of Indiana,” In Lives of Leonard Calvert, Samuel Ward, and Thomas Posey
, pp. 363-404. Library of American Biography
, edited by Jared Sparks, vol. 19. Boston: Charles C. Little & James Brown, 1846.
Posey, John Thornton. General Thomas Posey: Son of the American Revolution
. East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 1992.
___. “Governor Thomas Posey: The Son of George Washington?” Indiana Magazine of History
86 (March 1990): 28-49.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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