Martin Beaty
Martin Beaty (October 8, 1784 – June 17, 1856) was a United States Representative from Kentucky. He was born in Abingdon, Virginia. In his life, he worked as an iron furnace operator, a salt manufacturer, a rancher, and a farmer. Beaty was a slaveowner.[1]
Beaty was a member of the Kentucky Senate 1824–1828 and 1832. He served as a Presidential Elector for Henry Clay and John Sergeant in 1832 and William Henry Harrison and Francis Granger in 1836. He was an unsuccessful candidate for election to the Twenty-first Congress in 1828, and to the Twenty-second Congress in 1830, but was elected as an Anti-Jacksonian to the Twenty-third Congress (March 4, 1833 – March 3, 1835). He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection to the Twenty-fourth Congress in 1834. After leaving Congress, he was a member of the Kentucky House of Representatives, 1848. He died in 1856 in Belmont, Texas, where he was buried in Belmont Cemetery.
He was the great-grandfather of Fiddlin' John Carson
References
- ^ "Congress slaveowners", The Washington Post, 2022-01-19, retrieved 2022-01-25
- United States Congress. "Martin Beaty (id: B000285)". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.
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