George L. Kinnard

George L. Kinnard (* 1803 in Pennsylvania; † November 26, 1836 in Cincinnati, Ohio ) was an American politician. Between 1833 and 1836 he represented the State of Indiana in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

The exact date of birth and the birthplace of George Kinnard are not known. Even in his youth he moved with his widowed mother to Tennessee, where he attended the public schools. In 1823 he came to Indianapolis in Indiana. After studying law and qualifying as a lawyer, he started in Marion County to work in this profession. In the years 1826 and 1827 he was assessor in this district. Politically, Kinnard graduated in the 1820s, the movement to the future President Andrew Jackson and became a member of the Democratic Party, founded in 1828 by this.

Between 1827 and 1830 Kinnard sat as an MP in the House of Representatives from Indiana; 1831 to 1835 he directed the surveying authority in his home district. For some years he was also state auditor and a colonel in the state militia. In the congressional elections of 1832 Kinnard was in the then newly created sixth electoral district of Indiana in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he took up his new mandate on March 4, 1833. After a re-election, he could remain until his death on November 26, 1836 in Congress. There was discussed in those years heavily on the policies of President Jackson. It was about the controversial implementation of the Indian Removal Act, which Nullifikationskrise with the State of South Carolina and banking policy of the President.

George Kinnard died as a result of an injury he had sustained in the explosion of the steamboat "Flora" on the Ohio River.