South Trimble

South Trimble (* April 13, 1864 in Hazel Green, Wolfe County, Kentucky, † November 23, 1946 in Washington DC ) was an American politician. Between 1901 and 1907 he represented the state of Kentucky in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

South Trimble attended the public schools in Frankfort and the Excelsior Institute. He then worked in the vicinity of Frankfort in agriculture. At the same time he began a political career as a member of the Democratic Party. Between 1898 and 1900 he sat as an MP in the House of Representatives from Kentucky, which he was president in 1900. In the congressional elections of 1900, Trimble was in the seventh election district of Kentucky in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of June Ward Gayle on March 4, 1901. After two re- election he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1907, this three legislative periods.

In 1906, Trimble gave up another run for the U.S. House of Representatives. Instead, he applied unsuccessfully for the office of Lieutenant Governor of Kentucky. Between 1911 and 1919, Trimble was employed as Clerk of the House of Representatives in the Congress government. A post he held again from 1931 until his death in 1946. Between, he managed from 1919 to 1931 his plantation near Selma (Alabama ).