Lawrence S. Trimble

Lawrence Strother Trimble (* August 26, 1825 in Flemingsburg, Fleming County, Kentucky; † August 9, 1904 in Albuquerque, New Mexico ) was an American politician. Between 1865 and 1871 he represented the state of Kentucky in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Lawrence Trimble attended the public schools of his home. After a subsequent law degree in 1847 and its recent approval as a lawyer, he began to practice in this profession in Paducah. Between 1856 and 1860 he was a judge in the first judicial district of Kentucky. From 1860 to 1865 he served as president of the railway company New Orleans & Ohio Railroad.

Politically, Trimble was a member of the Democratic Party. In 1851 and 1852 he sat as an MP in the House of Representatives from Kentucky. In the congressional elections of 1864 he was the first electoral district of Kentucky in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Lucien Anderson on March 4, 1865. After two re- election he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1871 three legislative periods. During this time, ended the civil war. Since 1865 the work of the Congress was marked by tensions between the Republican Party and President Andrew Johnson, which culminated in a narrowly failed impeachment.

In 1870, Trimble was not nominated by his party. He then practiced as a lawyer again. In 1879, he moved to Albuquerque in the former New Mexico Territory. He worked there until 1889 again as a lawyer; then he withdrew into retirement. Lawrence Trimble died on August 9, 1904 in Albuquerque.