- Richard Menefee
Richard Hickman Menefee (
December 4 ,1809 -February 21 ,1841 ) was a U.S. Representative fromKentucky .Born in
Owingsville, Kentucky , Menefee attended the public schools and was graduated fromTransylvania University ,Lexington, Kentucky .He taught school for several years.He studied law.He was admitted to the bar in 1830 and commenced practice inMount Sterling, Kentucky .He was appointed as Commonwealth attorney in 1832.He served as member of theKentucky House of Representatives in 1836 and 1837.Menefee was elected as a Whig to the Twenty-fifth Congress (
March 4 ,1837 -March 3 ,1839 ).He resumed the practice of law in Lexington.He died inFrankfort, Kentucky ,February 21 ,1841 .He was interred in a private cemetery inFayette County, Kentucky .He was reinterred inCave Hill Cemetery ,Louisville, Kentucky ,October 28 ,1893 .References
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