Bryan Young (politician)

Bryan Rust Young ( * January 14, 1800 in Bardstown, Nelson County, Kentucky, † May 14 1882 in Elizabethtown, Kentucky ) was an American politician. From 1845 to 1847 he represented the state of Kentucky in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Bryan Young was a younger brother of William Singleton Young (1790-1827), who was also of 1825-1827 the state of Kentucky in Congress. He was also an uncle of Governor John Young Brown (1835-1904), sitting as a deputy in the U.S. House of Representatives and two-time Kentucky 1859-1877.

Young attended the common schools and studied at the University of Louisville after. After a subsequent medical studies and his medical license, he started working in Nelson County in this profession. At the same time he proposed as a member of the Whig Party launched a political career. In the congressional elections of 1844 he was in the fifth electoral district of Kentucky in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he succeeded the Democrat James W. Stone on March 4, 1845. Until March 3, 1847, he graduated from a legislature that was shaped by the events of the Mexican-American War.

After his time in the U.S. House of Representatives Young again worked as a doctor. Between 1858 and 1864 he was several times delegate in the House of Representatives from Kentucky. He died on 14 May 1882 in Elizabethtown.