Samuel McKee (1774)

Samuel McKee (* October 13, 1774 in Lexington, Virginia; † October 16, 1826 in Hickman County, Kentucky ) was an American politician. Between 1809 and 1817 he represented the state of Kentucky in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Samuel McKee attended until 1794, the Liberty Hall Academy in Lexington, from which the present-day Washington and Lee University emerged. After a subsequent study of law and its made ​​in 1800 admitted to the bar, he began practicing in this profession in Somerset. In the local Pulaski County, he was then as head of the Land Survey Authority ( Surveyor ) operates. In 1807 he moved his residence and his law firm to Lancaster.

Politically, McKee was a member of the Democratic- Republican Party. Between 1802 and 1808, he sat as an MP in the House of Representatives from Kentucky. In the congressional elections of 1808 he was in the second electoral district of Kentucky in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of John Boyle on March 4, 1809. This district he represented until March 3, 1813. Subsequently, he was elected to Congress again in the newly seventh district. He represented this area until March 3, 1817 U.S. House of Representatives. Between 1815 and 1817 he was Chairman of the Committee for the administration of public property. During the British - American War of 1812 he served on the staff of General William Henry Harrison.

After his time in Congress, Samuel McKee again worked as a lawyer. Then he was appointed by President James Monroe in a commission that dealt with the navigation on the Mississippi and the Ohio. McKee remained until his death in 1826 a member of this Commission.