William S. Young
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Biography
Young was born near Bardstown, Kentucky. Although he initially studied medicine with a Dr. Bemiss, of Bloomfield, he graduated from the University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky, with a law degree. He commenced practice in Bloomfield, Kentucky, and continued in this after moving to Elizabethtown, Kentucky, in 1814. Young owned slaves.[1]
Young was elected to the Nineteenth Congress. He was reelected to the Twentieth Congress and served from March 4, 1825, until his death in Elizabethtown, on September 20, 1827, before the assembling of the Twentieth Congress. He was interred in Elizabethtown Cemetery.
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- 1790 births
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- People from Nelson County, Kentucky
- National Republican Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Kentucky
- Kentucky lawyers
- Members of the United States House of Representatives who owned slaves
- People from Elizabethtown, Kentucky
- University of Louisville alumni
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