- Francis Bristow
Francis Marion Bristow (
August 11 ,1804 -June 10 ,1864 ) was aUnited States Representative fromKentucky . He was born inClark County, Kentucky . He pursued preparatory studies and studiedlaw . He was admitted to the bar and commenced practice inElkton, Kentucky .Bristow was a member of the
Kentucky House of Representatives 1831-1833. Later, he served in theKentucky Senate in 1846 and was a delegate to the Kentucky constitutional convention in 1849. He was elected as a Whig to theThirty-third United States Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death ofPresley Underwood Ewing and served from December 4, 1854, to March 3, 1855 and was elected as a candidate of the Opposition Party to theThirty-sixth United States Congress (March 4, 1859-March 3, 1861). He was not a candidate for reelection in 1860.After leaving Congress, he resumed the practice of law. Bristow was a member of the House Committee of Thirty-three appointed by the Speaker of the
United States House of Representatives in December 1860 to consider proposals to avert the impending disaster and also attended the peace convention of 1861 held inWashington, D.C. in an effort to devise means to prevent the impendingAmerican Civil War . He died in Elkton, Kentucky in 1864 and is buried in the family burying ground.He was the father of
Benjamin Helm Bristow (June 20, 1832 – June 22, 1896) who was an American lawyer and politician who served as the firstSolicitor General of the United States and as aU.S. Treasury Secretary .References
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*Webb, Ross A. Francis Marion Bristow, A Study in Unionism. "Filson Club History Quarterly", 37 (April 1963): 142-58.
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