Thomas A. Robertson

Thomas Austin Robertson ( born September 9, 1848 in Hodgenville, Kentucky, † July 18, 1892 in Elizabethtown, Kentucky ) was an American politician. Between 1883 and 1887 he represented the state of Kentucky in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

After primary school, Thomas Robertson visited the Cecilian College. After a subsequent law studies at the University of Louisville and his 1871 was admitted to the bar, he began practicing in this profession in Hodgenville. Between 1874 and 1877 he was a prosecutor in LaRue County; 1878 to 1883, he held this office in the 18th Judicial District of Kentucky. Politically, Robertson was a member of the Democratic Party. In the years 1877 and 1878 he sat as an MP in the House of Representatives from Kentucky.

In the congressional elections of 1882 Robertson 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 J. Proctor Knott on March 4, 1883. After a re-election in 1884 he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1887 two legislative sessions. Since 1885 he was chairman of the Committee to control expenditure of the War Department.

In 1886, Robertson was not nominated by his party for re-election. After his retirement from the U.S. House of Representatives, he again worked as a lawyer. Thomas Robertson died on July 18, 1892 in Elizabethtown and was buried in his birthplace of Hodgenville.

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