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Preceded by
  
Role
  
U.S. representative

Rank
  
Name
  
Micah Taul

Resigned
  
March 3, 1817

Profession
  
Battles and wars
  
Succeeded by
  

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Born
  
May 14, 1785Bladensburg, Maryland (
1785-05-14
)

Relations
  
Grandfather of Taul Bradford

Allegiance
  
United States of America

Unit
  
Wayne County Volunteers

Died
  
May 27, 1850, Mardisville, Alabama

Party
  

Political party
  
Democratic-Republican

Micah Taul (May 14, 1785 – May 27, 1850) was a U.S. Representative from Kentucky, grandfather of Taul Bradford.

Born in Bladensburg, Maryland, Taul moved to Kentucky with his parents in 1787. He attended private school. He studied law. He was admitted to the bar in 1801 and commenced practice in Monticello, Kentucky. He served as clerk of Wayne County Courts in 1801. He served as a colonel of Wayne County Volunteers in the War of 1812.

Taul was elected as a Democratic-Republican to the Fourteenth Congress (March 4, 1815 – March 3, 1817). He declined to be a candidate for renomination in 1816. He resumed the practice of law. He moved to Winchester, Tennessee, in 1826 and continued the practice of law. He moved to Mardisville, Alabama, in 1846 and engaged in agricultural pursuits until his death there on May 27, 1850. He was interred on his plantation at Mardisville.

References

Micah Taul Wikipedia


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