David Trimble (congressman)

David Trimble (* June 1782 in Frederick County, Virginia; † October 20, 1842 in Greenup County, Kentucky) was an American politician. Between 1817 and 1827 he represented the state of Kentucky in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

David Trimble attended in Williamsburg until 1799, the College of William & Mary. After a subsequent study of law and qualifying as a lawyer, he started in Mount Sterling to work in this profession. Trimble also took various positions at the British -American War of 1812 in part.

Politically, he was a member of the Democratic- Republican Party. In the congressional elections of 1816 he was the first electoral district of Kentucky in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington, DC chosen, where he became the successor of Thomas Fletcher on March 4, 1817. After four elections he could pass in Congress until March 3, 1827 five contiguous legislatures. In the 1820s Trimble joined the movement to President John Quincy Adams. This was in opposition to the motion to his successor, Andrew Jackson, later the Democratic Party emerged from the. Between 1819 and 1821, Trimble was chairman of the committee responsible for supervising the expenditure of the Ministry of Finance. He was also at the same time a member of the Election Committee.

In the elections of 1826 David Trimble lost to Henry Daniel. After he retired from politics. He died on October 20, 1842 at his estate " Trimble 's Furnace ".