David Kilgore

David Kilgore ( born April 3, 1804 Harrison County, Kentucky, † January 22, 1879 at Yorktown, Indiana ) was an American politician. Between 1857 and 1861 he represented the State of Indiana in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

In 1819, David Kilgore came with his father in the Franklin County, Indiana, where he attended the public schools. After a subsequent law degree in 1830 and its recent approval as a lawyer, he started in Yorktown to work in this profession. At the same time he embarked on a political career. Between 1833 and 1839 he was several times delegate in the House of Representatives of Indiana, in which he was elected in 1855 again. This year, he served as President of this chamber. From 1839 to 1846 Kilgore Chief Judge of the District Court in Yorktown. In 1850 he participated in a meeting on the revision of the Constitution of Indiana as a delegate. In the 1850s he became a member of the Republican Party, founded in 1854.

In the congressional elections of 1856 Kilgore has been in the fifth electoral district of Indiana in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of David P. Holloway on March 4, 1857. After a re-election he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1861 two legislative sessions. These were determined by the events in the immediate run-up to the Civil War. In 1866 he was a delegate to the National Union Convention in Philadelphia. David Kilgore died on January 22, 1879 near Yorktown. In this city he was also buried.