George M. Bibb
George Mortimer Bibb ( born October 30, 1776 in Prince Edward County, Virginia; † April 14, 1859 in Georgetown (Washington, DC) ) was an American judge, politician, Senator and Minister of Finance.
Study and career
After a general education studies at Hampden - Sydney College, the College of New Jersey, which he with a Bachelor of Arts (BA) graduated in 1792, and the College of William and Mary, he graduated in law. After admission to the bar he worked in Virginia. Then he opened his own law firm in 1798 in Lexington (Kentucky).
1808 he was appointed a judge of the Court of Appeals of Kentucky ( Court of Appeals ), which he was president. Following the appointment by his father, the then Governor Charles Scott, was the first time from 1809 to 1810 for a short time After retiring from the Senate in 1814, he initially returned to the bar to Lexington and then founded two years later, a law firm in Frankfort (Kentucky). 1827 to 1828 he was again President of the Court of Appeals of Kentucky.
After he dropped out of the Senate he served 1835-1844 as Chancellor of Chancery Court of Louisville ( Kentucky).
After he resigned from the post of Finance Minister, he was a lawyer in Washington, DC down and was in the following years temporarily Advisor to the Ministry of Justice.
Political career
Parliamentarians in Kentucky and U.S. Senator
After his final settlement in Kentucky in 1806, he began his political career. After an unsuccessful candidacy for the U.S. Senate, he was a member of the House of Representatives from Kentucky, in which he was re-elected in 1810 and 1817.
In 1811 he was elected Senator. As such, he represented until 1814, the interests of the first Senate election district of Kentucky.
In 1829 he was elected senator again in the first Senate election district of Kentucky. As followers founded by the newly elected President Andrew Jackson Democratic Party ), he belonged to the Congress this time until 1835 a full parliamentary term. March 4, 1829 to March 3, 1931, he was Chairman of the Senate Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads.
Treasury under President Tyler
On July 4, 1844, President John Tyler appointed him as the successor of John Canfield Spencer to his fourth and final finance his four-year tenure in the cabinet.
At this time he was one of the oldest ministers who have been appointed to this office. In its annual report 1844, he not only provided the historical development of the public finances of the United States since 1789 is, but also proposed the establishment of permanent bank deposits to a fund, the income should be used to reduce government debt. On the other hand, should be through taxes and duties government revenues increase. However, it succeeded Bibb in its short tenure not revive the fund, which existed 1789-1835 and the national debt this year could be reduced.
With the end of the term of President Tyler on March 7, 1844, he resigned from the Ministry of Finance.
Publications
Afterlife
The United States Coast Guard named 1936, the Coast Guard vessel USCGC Bibb (WPG -31) in his honor.
Web links, and background literature
- Biography and portrait on the website of the U.S. Treasury
- Biographies of the members of the cabinet of President Polk
- Biography in Famous Americans
- George M. Bibb in the database of Find a Grave (English)
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- United States Senator from Kentucky
- Finance (United States)
- Member of the Democratic Party (United States)
- Americans
- Born in 1776
- Died in 1859
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