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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—KentuckyDavid TRIMBLE
(1782-1842)
TRIMBLE, David, a
Representative from Kentucky; born in Frederick County, Va., in
June 1782; was graduated from the College of William and Mary,
Williamsburg, Va., in 1799; studied law; was admitted to the bar
and commenced legal practice in Mount Sterling, Ky.; served in the
War of 1812 as brigade quartermaster of the First Brigade, Kentucky
Mounted Militia, and later as a private in the Battalion of
Kentucky Mounted Infantry Volunteers commanded by Major Dudley;
elected as a Republican to the Fifteenth through the Seventeenth
Congress; reelected as an Adams-Clay Republican to the Eighteenth
Congress; and elected as an Adams candidate to the Nineteenth
Congress (March 4, 1817-March 3, 1827); chairman, Committee on
Expenditures in the Department of the Treasury (Sixteenth
Congress), Committee on Elections (Sixteenth Congress); was an
unsuccessful candidate for reelection to the Twentieth Congress;
died at Trimble’s Furnace, Greenup County, Ky., October 20,
1842.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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