Henry Crist

Henry Crist ( born October 20, 1764 in Fredericksburg, Virginia, † August 11 1844 in Shepherdsville, Kentucky ) was an American politician. Between 1809 and 1811 he represented the state of Kentucky in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Henry Crist attended the public schools in Pennsylvania, where he had moved with his father. Then he moved to Kentucky, where he was active in land surveying. In 1788 he came to the Bullitt County, where he worked in the salt business. Crist was a member of the founded by Thomas Jefferson Democratic- Republican Party. In the years 1795 and 1806 he sat as an MP in the House of Representatives from Kentucky; 1800-1804 he was a member of the State Senate.

In the congressional elections of 1808 Crist was in the third electoral district of Kentucky in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of John Rowan on March 4, 1809. Until March 3, 1811, he was able to complete only one term in Congress. Little is known about Crist's another resume. After the founding of the Whigs in the 1830s he joined this party, but without exerting a major political office. Henry Crist died on August 11, 1844 near Shepherdsville and was buried in Frankfort.