OVERVIEW:

FULL NAME:
John Jordan Crittenden

BORN:
September 10, 1786
Versailles, Kentucky 

DIED: 
July 26, 1863 (age 75)
Frankfort, Kentucky

EDUCATION:
Washington and Lee University
College of William & Mary (1806)

POLITICAL PARTIES:
Democratic-Republican 
National Republican
Whig 
American 
Constitutional Union
Unionist 

HIGHLIGHTS:
1803:
Moved to Kentucky to Study Law 
1807:
Admitted to the Bar,
Began Practicing Law in Woodford County, Kentucky 
1809-1810:
Attorney General of the Illinois Territory
1811-1817:
Member of the Kentucky State House of Representatives
1812-1813:
Served in the Kentucky militia during the  War of 1812
1815-1816:
Speaker of the Kentucky House of Representatives 
1817-1819:
U.S. Senator from Kentucky,
Democratic-Republican
1825:
Moved to Frankfort, Kentucky to Practice Law 
1825, 1829-1832:
Member of the Kentucky State House of Representatives
1827:
Appointed and Confirmed as U.S. District Attorney
1829:
Removed as U.S. District Attorney by Andrew Jackson
1828:
Nominated by John Quincy Adams to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court,
Not Confirmed by the Senate 
1834-1835:
Secretary of State of Kentucky
1835-1841:
U.S. Senator from Kentucky,
Whig 
1841:
U.S. Attorney General
1842-1848:
U.S. Senator from Kentucky,
Whig 
1848-1850:
Governor of Kentucky
1850-1853:
U.S. Attorney General
1855-1861:
U.S. Senator from Kentucky,
Whig, American/ Know Nothing 
1861-1863:
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives,
Unionist 

RESOURCES:
Biographical Directory of Congress
Department of Justice
Kentucky Secretary of State
Wikipedia
Obituary (New York Times)

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