George Robertson (congressman)
George Robertson ( * November 18, 1790 in Harrodsburg, Mercer County, Kentucky, † May 16, 1874 in Lexington, Kentucky ) was an American politician. Between 1817 and 1821 he represented the state of Kentucky in the U.S. House of Representatives.
Career
After primary school attended George Robertson until 1806, the Transylvania University in Lexington. After a subsequent law degree in 1809 and its recent approval as a lawyer, he began to practice in this profession in Lancaster. At the same time he proposed as a member of the Democratic-Republican Party launched a political career. In the congressional elections of 1816 he 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 Samuel McKee on March 4, 1817. In the following two congressional elections, he was confirmed in each case. Between 1817 and 1819 he was chairman of the committee which dealt with private land claims. His last legislative session began on March 4, 1821. Yet but He stepped back before the first meeting of the newly elected Congress. After a by-election from his position went to John Speed Smith.
After his retirement from the U.S. House of Representatives sat Robertson continued his political career at the state level. Between 1822 and 1827 he sat as an MP in the House of Representatives from Kentucky, which he was president for four years. He declined the proffered office of the Governor in Arkansas Territory as well as from which he is transferred as ambassador to Colombia and Peru. In 1828, George Robertson was executive as Secretary of State official of the State Government of Kentucky. In 1829 he was appointed judge of the Kentucky Court of Appeals. Between 1829 and 1834 he led this state appeals court as Chief Justice.
In 1834, Robertson resigned his judgeship and worked as a private attorney in Lexington. At the same time, he was from 1834 to 1857 as a professor of law at the Transylvania University operates. Politically, Robertson concluded after the dissolution of his party to the Whigs. In the years 1848, 1851 and 1852 he was again elected to the House of Representatives of Kentucky, which he was president between 1851-1852. Since 1864 to 1871 was Judge Robertson in the second judicial district, and at times as acting Chief Justice director of the Kentucky Court of Appeals. George Robertson died on 16 May 1874 in Lexington, and was also buried there.