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David Meriwether [TMSI #6841]

David Meriwether, senator, b. in Louisa county, Va., 30 Oct. 1800. He removed to Kentucky, was educated in a country school, and in 1818 engaged in the fur trade. He early entered politics as a Democrat, and between 1832 and 1883 was thirteen times a member of the Kentucky legislature, becoming speaker of the house in 1859. He was in the Constitutional convention of 1849, sat in the U.S. Senate by appointment of the governor, on the death of Henry Clay, from 15 July till 20 Dec. 1852, and was governor of New Mexico territory from 1853 till 1857.

Source: Appleton’s Cyclopedia of American Biography, Vol. 4, by James Grant Wilson and John Fiske, 1888, Page 304



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