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John Buckner Thruston 1957 - August 30 1845
Jefferson County KyArchives Biography

Author: Lawyers and Lawmakers of Kentucky, by H. Levin

JOHN BUCKNER THRUSTON, United States senator and judge, was born in 1757, in 
Virginia, where he acquired a liberal education and prepared himself to enter 
the legal profession. He emigrated to the Kentucky district and located at 
Louisville at an early day. He represented his district in the legislature of 
Virginia in 1789; in 1791 was appointed one of the judges of the Kentucky 
district courts; in 1798-99 was secretary of the Kentucky senate, a member of 
the constitutional convention in 1799, and in 1805 he was tendered the
appointment of judge of the United States court for the territory of
Orleans, which he declined, having been elected to a seat in the United
States senate. He resigned from the senate to accept the office of judge of
the United States court for the District of Columbia, and retained that
incumbency until his death, which occurred in Washington, August 30, 1845.
He was a man of many graces of character, natural and acquired, of superior
ability and great erudition. He filled the several positions to which he
was elected or appointed very acceptably, and reflected honor upon the
state and county. His long service upon the bench was alike honorable to
himself and Kentucky. 



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