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Buckner Thruston
Judge, Circuit Court of the District of Columbia · 1809
Buckner Thruston , Judge, Circuit Court of the District of Columbia. Buckner Thruston (February 9, 1763 – August 30, 1845) was an American lawyer, slaveowner and politician who served as United States Senator from Kentucky as well as in the Virginia House of Delegates and became a United States circuit judge of the United States Circuit Court of the District of Columbia.
Education
- College of William and MaryA.B., 1783
Career
Private practice, Lexington, Kentucky, 1788-1789, 1791-1792, 1794-1802, 1803-1805; State delegate, Virginia, 1789; Judge, Supreme Court of Judicature of the District of Kentucky, 1791; Clerk, Kentucky State Senate, 1792-1794; Commissioner, boundary dispute between Kentucky and Virginia, 1799-1800; Judge, Kentucky Circuit Court, 1802-1803; U.S. senator from Kentucky, 1805-1809
Biography
Buckner Thruston (February 9, 1763 – August 30, 1845) was an American lawyer, slaveowner and politician who served as United States Senator from Kentucky as well as in the Virginia House of Delegates and became a United States circuit judge of the United States Circuit Court of the District of Columbia.
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