Richard Menefee

Richard Hickman Menefee ( born December 4, 1809 in Owingsville, Bath County, Kentucky, † February 21, 1841 in Frankfort, Kentucky ) was an American politician. Between 1837 and 1839 he represented the state of Kentucky in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Richard Menefee attended the common schools and then studied at Transylvania University in Lexington. He then worked for several years as a teacher. After a subsequent law degree in 1830 and its recent approval as a lawyer, he started in Mount Sterling to work in this profession. In 1832, he served as a prosecutor. Politically, Menefee member of the Whig party. Between 1836 and 1837 he sat as an MP in the House of Representatives from Kentucky. There he was a member of the Tax Committee.

In the congressional elections of 1836 he was in the eleventh electoral district of Kentucky in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Richard French on March 4, 1837. Until March 3, 1839, he graduated only one term in Congress. In 1838 he was with John J. Crittenden 's second of Representatives William J. Graves, his colleague Jonathan Cilley of Maine shot and killed in a duel. Because of his active participation in this event he lost prestige. As a result, a law was passed that forbade duels in the federal capital. In this context, Richard Menefee held his longest speech he divided to three days. He took to this law position.

After his retirement from the U.S. House of Representatives Menefee practiced as a lawyer again. In 1841 he was assigned as the successor of John Crittenden in the U.S. Senate. But he died before the scheduled inauguration. Richard Menefee was married in 1832 to Sarah Bell Jouett, with whom he had three children.