Micah Taul

Micah Taul ( born May 14, 1785 Bladensburg, Maryland, † May 27, 1850 in Mardi, Alabama ) was an American politician. Between 1815 and 1817 he represented the state of Kentucky in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Already in 1787 came Micah Taul with his parents in the territory that became the state of Kentucky. There he received a private school education. After a subsequent law degree in 1801 and its recent approval as a lawyer, he began in Monticello to work in this profession. In the same year he was bailiff at the District Court in Wayne County. During the British - American War of 1812 he was a colonel of a volunteer unit from the Wayne County.

Taul was a member of the Democratic- Republican Party. In the congressional elections of 1814 he was in the ninth constituency of Kentucky in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Samuel Hopkins on March 4, 1815. Since he resigned in 1816 to run again, he was able to complete only one term in Congress until March 3, 1817.

After his retirement from the U.S. House of Representatives Micah Taul again worked as a lawyer. In 1826 he moved to Winchester, Tennessee, where he also practiced in his profession. 20 years later, in 1846, he moved to Mardi Ville in Alabama. There, he worked on until his death on 27 May 1850 Rural Affairs. Micah Taul was the grandfather of Taul Bradford (1835-1883), who was also representing Alabama's Congress.

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