Martin Beaty

Martin Beaty ( born October 8, 1784 in Abingdon, Washington County, Virginia; † June 17, 1856 in Belmont, Texas ) was an American politician. Between 1833 and 1835, he represented the state of Kentucky in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

In 1817, Martin Beaty came to the McCreary County in Kentucky, where he managed a farm. In addition, he ran some other shops, including a molten iron. Beaty was also involved in salt production. 1818 was discovered on his land oil, which at that time but could only sell poorly. Nevertheless, he ran one of the first commercial oil well at all.

In addition to these activities Beaty also began a political career. He was also a member of the school board in his home. In the 1820s he joined the movement against the later U.S. President Andrew Jackson and became a member of the short-lived National Republican Party. Between 1824 and 1828, and again in 1832 he sat in the Senate from Kentucky. In the presidential elections of 1832 and 1836 he was elector for Henry Clay, and later William Henry Harrison, but both were subject each. In the years 1828 and 1830, respectively Beaty ran unsuccessfully as Nationalrepublikaner for Congress.

In the congressional elections of 1832 he was in the fourth electoral district of Kentucky in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Robert Letcher on March 4, 1833. Since he lost against Sherrod Williams of the Whig Party in the elections of 1834, he was able to complete only one Legislauturperiode in Congress until March 3, 1835. Since the inauguration of President Jackson in 1829, was discussed inside and outside of Congress vehemently about its policy. It was about the controversial enforcement of the Indian Removal Act, the conflict with the State of South Carolina, which culminated in the Nullifikationskrise, and banking policy of the President.

After the end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives to back his former Beaty dedicated shops in Kentucky. In 1848 he was a deputy in the House of Representatives from Kentucky. He later moved to Belmont in Texas, where he worked as a farmer. There he is on June 17 in 1856 died.