John Duncan Young

John Duncan Young ( born September 22, 1823 in Owingsville, Bath County, Kentucky, † December 26, 1910 in Mount Sterling, Kentucky ) was an American politician. Between 1873 and 1875 he represented the state of Kentucky in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

John Young attended the public schools of his home. After a subsequent law degree in 1854 and its recent approval as a lawyer, he started in Owingsville to work in this profession. Later, he was also active in agriculture. During the administration of President Franklin Pierce (1853-1857) Young was acting U.S. Marshal for Kentucky. Between 1858 and 1862, and again in the years 1866 and 1867, he served as a judge in Bath County. Politically, he was a member of the Democratic Party. In 1866 he was first elected to Congress; there but his seat was denied.

In the congressional elections of 1872 Young was then in what was then again appointed tenth electoral district of Kentucky in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he took up his new mandate on March 4, 1873. Since he resigned in 1874 to further candidacy, he was able to complete only one term in the U.S. House of Representatives until March 3, 1875. After his time in Congress be Young again operated initially in agriculture. Between 1884 and 1889 he was a railway officer of his home state. After that, he was from 1890 to 1895 again judge in Bath County. He died on December 26, 1910 in Mount Sterling.