Garnett Duncan

William Garnett Duncan ( born March 2, 1800 Louisville, Kentucky, † May 25, 1875 ) was an American politician. Between 1847 and 1849 he represented the state of Kentucky in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Garnett Duncan studied until 1821 at Yale College. After a subsequent law degree from the same school and its made ​​in 1822 admitted to the bar he began in Louisville to work in this profession. In the 1840s, he proposed as a member of the Whig Party launched a political career. In the congressional elections of 1846 Duncan was in the seventh election district of Kentucky in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of William Thomasson on March 4, 1847. Since he did not run in 1848, he was able to complete only one term in Congress until March 3, 1849. During this time, ended the Mexican -American War. Duncan was a member of the Marine Committee.

In 1850 he moved to New Orleans in Louisiana, where he practiced law. In 1860, he withdrew into retirement. He then took a few trips to Europe. At that time he also lived for several years in the French capital Paris. It was not until his death in 1875, he returned because of his poor health to Louisville. He is also passed on May 25, 1875.