Jesse Bledsoe

Jesse Bledsoe ( born April 6, 1776 in Culpeper County, Virginia; † June 25, 1836 in Nacogdoches, Texas) was an American lawyer and politician ( Democratic- Republican). He was the uncle of Congressman Robert Emmett Bledsoe Baylor and Thomas Chilton and the Confederate deputies William Parish Chilton.

Career

Jesse Bledsoe moved into his childhood with his older brothers to Kentucky. There he attended the Transylvania Seminary Transylvania University in Lexington, and the. He studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1800 and then practiced. Bledsoe also pursued a political career. He was in 1808 appointed managing officials ( Secretary of State ). Then he was a deputy in the 1812 House of Representatives from Kentucky. We chose him in the U.S. Senate, where he remained from March 4, 1813 until his resignation on December 24, 1814. He then held a 1817-1820 a Senate seat from Kentucky.

He was judge in 1822 in the district of Lexington. He also worked as a professor of law at Transylvania University and as pastor of the Christian Church. Bledsoe moved to Mississippi in 1833 and in 1835 to Texas, where he died a year later.

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