Thomas Alexander Marshall

Thomas Alexander Marshall ( * January 15, 1794 in Versailles, Kentucky, † April 17, 1871 in Louisville, Kentucky ) was an American politician. Between 1831 and 1835, he represented the state of Kentucky in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Thomas Marshall was the son of Humphrey Marshall (1760-1841), who was 1795-1801 U.S. Senator for Kentucky. He was also an uncle of Humphrey Marshall II (1812-1872), who was also of 1849-1851 that State in Congress. After primary school, Marshall attended until 1815, the Yale College. After a subsequent law studies and his 1817 was admitted to a lawyer, he began practicing in Frankfort in this profession. In 1819 he moved to Paris. In the 1820s he joined the movement against the future President Andrew Jackson and became a member of the short-lived National Republican Party, which largely went up in the Whig Party later.

Between 1827 and 1828 Marshall sat as an MP in the House of Representatives from Kentucky. In the congressional elections of 1830 he was in the second electoral district of Kentucky in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he succeeded the Democrats Nicholas D. Coleman on March 4, 1831. By March 3, 1833 Marshall represented the second and then to March 3, the twelfth district of Kentucky. Since the inauguration of President Andrew 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 Marshall was 1835-1856 Judge at the Court of Appeals of Kentucky. From 1836 to 1849 he also held legal lectures at Transylvania College in Lexington. In 1859 he moved to Louisville. 1863 Marshall was again a deputy in the State Parliament. Between 1866 and 1867 he served as Chief Judge of the Court of Appeals of Kentucky. Thomas Marshall died on April 17, 1871 in Louisville.

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