Stephen Ormsby

Stephen Ormsby (* 1759 in County Sligo, Ireland, † 1844 in Louisville, Kentucky ) was an American politician. Between 1811 and 1817 he represented the state of Kentucky in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

The exact date of birth of Stephen Ormsby is unknown. Even in his childhood, he came out of his Irish homeland to Philadelphia in Pennsylvania. There he received a good basic education. After a subsequent law degree in 1786 and its recent approval as a lawyer, he began to work in Danville in this profession. In 1787 he was a deputy district attorney in Jefferson County. In 1790 he took part in an Indian campaign as a brigadier general of the militia. In 1791 he was district judge in Jefferson County; 1802 to 1810 he was again a judge.

Politically, Ormsby Member, founded by Thomas Jefferson Democratic- Republican Party. In 1796 he was an elector in the presidential elections. In the congressional elections of 1810 he was in the third electoral district of Kentucky in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Henry Crist on March 4, 1811. In the following midterm elections, he lost in his constituency against Richard Mentor Johnson. After the death of the selected eighth in the newly created district candidate John Simpson, who died before the beginning of the legislature, Ormsby was elected in the by-election due to the first congressman for this district. On April 20, 1813, he could take up his new mandate. After a re-election in 1814 he remained until March 3, 1817 in Congress. In his time in the U.S. House of Representatives of the British -American War fell.

In the elections of 1816 Ormsby lost to Richard Clough Anderson. In 1817 he was appointed head of the branch of the Second Bank of the United States in Louisville. He is also passed in 1844.