Buckner Thruston

Buckner Thruston (9. února 1763 – 30. srpna 1845) byl US Senator from Kentucky from 4 March 1805 to 18 December 1809, succeeding John Brown and preceding Henry Clay. He was a Democratic-Republican.

Biography

Buckner Thruston se narodil v Gloucester County, Virginia in 1763, and he moved to Lexington, Kentucky in 1788, becoming a lawyer. In 1792, he was elected the first clerk of the Kentucky Senate, and he later settled the Kentucky-Virginia border dispute. Thruston sloužil v US Senate v letech 1805 až 1809, kdy se stal soudcem obvodního soudu pro District of Columbia a sloužil od roku 1809 až do své smrti v roce 1845. Jeho syn, Charles Mynn Thruston, was a Union general during the American Civil War.

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