Thomas Chilton, Date of Birth, Date of Death

    

Thomas Chilton

American politician

Date of Birth: 30-Jul-1798

Date of Death: 15-Aug-1854

Profession: lawyer, politician, biographer

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Leo


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About Thomas Chilton

  • Thomas Chilton (July 30, 1798 – August 15, 1854) was a U.S.
  • Representative from Kentucky, a prominent Baptist clergyman, and the ghost writer of David Crockett's autobiography. Born near Lancaster, Kentucky, a son of Rev.
  • Thomas John Chilton and Margaret Bledsoe, Chilton attended schools in Paris, Kentucky.
  • One week before his seventeenth birthday he married and commenced study for ordination as a Baptist minister.
  • Simultaneously he began studying for the bar with Jesse Bledsoe, a maternal uncle.
  • After setting up a law practice in Owingsville he was elected to the State House of Representatives at age 21.
  • Chilton became enamored of the political persona of Andrew Jackson and carried Jackson's banner to the Twenty-first Congress from Elizabeth, Kentucky.
  • Chilton was first seated in the U.S.
  • House of Representatives on January 11, 1828. In Washington, DC Chilton took residence at the boarding house of Mary Ball.
  • He was lodged in the same room as a Representative from Tennessee, named David Crockett.
  • The two men rapidly became friends and would spend the better part of the next six years acting in political concert.
  • The most significant event they shared was disillusion with Andrew Jackson, and abandonment of his political party in March 1830.
  • Chilton failed in his bid for reelection to the Twenty-second Congress but was elected as an Anti-Jacksonian to the Twenty-third Congress.
  • By the end of that term both Chilton and Crockett were tired of dealing with the Jackson machine and associated dirty tricks.
  • The two men were glad to turn their backs on Washington.
  • In 1835 Chilton chose to resume the Baptist ministry in addition to law practice.

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