Thomas Sandford

Thomas Sandford (* 1762 in Westmoreland County, Virginia; † December 10, 1808 in Covington, Kentucky ) was an American politician. Between 1803 and 1807, he represented the state of Kentucky in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

The exact date of birth of Thomas Sandford is not known. He received a good education and took part as a soldier in the War of Independence. After the war he moved to Covington later in Kentucky, where he worked in agriculture. Politically Sandford was a member of the founded by Thomas Jefferson Democratic- Republican Party. In 1799 he was a delegate at a meeting on the revision of the Constitution of Kentucky. Between 1800 and 1802, he sat in the state Senate. After that, he was a deputy in the 1802 House of Representatives from Kentucky.

In the congressional elections of 1802 he was in the then newly created constituency of Kentucky in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he took up his new mandate on March 4, 1803. After a re-election in 1804 he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1807 two legislative sessions. During his time as a congressman, the territory of the United States has been considerably enlarged in 1803 by the investments made by President Jefferson Louisiana Purchase. In 1804, the Twelfth Amendment to the Constitution was ratified.