John Boyle (congressman)

John Boyle (* October 28, 1774 in Castlewood, Botetourt County, Virginia; † February 28, 1835 in Danville, Kentucky) was an American lawyer and politician. Between 1803 and 1809 he represented the state of Kentucky in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Already in 1779 John Boyle came with his father in the territory that became the state of Kentucky. The family settled in Whitley 's station down. There he received a private school education. After a subsequent law degree in 1797 and its recent approval as a lawyer, he started in Lancaster to work in this profession.

Politically, Boyle was a member of the founded by Thomas Jefferson Democratic- Republican Party. In 1800 he was elected to the House of Representatives from Kentucky. In the congressional elections of 1802 he was in the second electoral district of Kentucky in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he succeeded John Fowler took on 4 March 1803 the moved to the newly created fifth district. After two elections Boyle was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1809 three legislative periods. During this time he took part in, among other impeachment proceedings against federal judge Samuel Chase. During his time as a Member of the territory of the United States has been considerably enlarged in 1803 by the investments made by President Jefferson Louisiana Purchase. In 1804, the Twelfth Amendment to the Constitution was ratified. Since 1805 Boyle was chairman of the Committee on public property.

In 1809 he was appointed by President James Madison to the Governor of Illinois Territory; Boyle refused this post but from. Between 1809 and 1810 he was a judge on the Kentucky Court of Appeals; 1810 to 1826 he led there as a Chief Justice as chairman. From this office he resigned on November 9, 1826, to follow a nomination for Judge of the Federal District Court for Kentucky. A post he held until his death in 1835. At the Kentucky Boyle County was named after him.