Buckner Thruston

Buckner Thruston ( born February 9, 1763 in Petsoe Parish, Gloucester County, Virginia; † August 30, 1845 in Washington DC) was an American politician of the Democratic-Republican Party, who represented the state of Kentucky in the U.S. Senate.

Thruston graduated at William and Mary College in Williamsburg. He studied law and moved to Lexington, which belonged at this time to Virginia. After recording to the bar he practiced there as a lawyer.

His political career began in 1789 with membership of the House of Representatives from Virginia. After Kentucky had been raised to a State, Thruston was employed as a clerk in the local state Senate. He was also a member of a commission for the settlement of border disputes between Kentucky and Virginia.

In 1791, Buckner Thruston served as a federal judge for the District of Kentucky; 1802 to 1803 he belonged to the district court (circuit court). The appeal to federal judges in Orleans Territory in 1804 he dismissed.

In the same year Thruston was chosen for the Democratic- Republican Party in the U.S. Senate. This he was a member of 4 March 1805 to his resignation on 18 December 1809. He returned to justice and took a job as a judge on the United States Circuit Court for the District of Columbia, where he remained until his death in 1845.