John W. Tibbatts

John Wooleston Tibbatts ( born June 12, 1802 in Lexington, Kentucky; † July 5, 1852 in Newport, Kentucky ) was an American politician. Between 1843 and 1847 he represented the state of Kentucky in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

John Tibbatts attended until 1823 the Transylvania College in his hometown of Lexington. After a subsequent law degree in 1826 and its recent approval as a lawyer, he began to work in Newport in this profession. He was also involved in the founding of the Newport Manufacturing Company in 1831. It was not long until he came to a considerable wealth. In Newport he practiced at that time also some local offices.

Politically Tibbatts member of the Democratic Party. In the congressional elections of 1842 he was in the tenth electoral district of Kentucky in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Thomas F. Marshall of the Whig party on March 4, 1843. After a re-election in 1844 he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1847 two legislative sessions. Tibbatts campaigned for a strong currency, free trade and the annexation of the Republic of Texas. During the following Mexican - American War, he was a colonel commanding an infantry unit of the U.S. Army. After that, he was until 1848 the military governor of Monterrey. He then returned to Kentucky, where he practiced until his death in July 1852 as a lawyer.

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