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Biographical Directory of the American Congress, 1774-1949
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Underwood, Joseph Rogers
Underwood, Joseph Rogers (brother of Warner Lewis Underwood and grandfather of Oscar Wilder Underwood), a Representative and a Senator from Kentucky; born in Goochland County, Va., October 24, 1791; moved to Barren County, Ky., in 1803 and lived with his uncle; attended the common schools and was graduated from Transylvania College, Lexington, Ky., in 1811; studied law in Lexington; served in the War of 1812 as a lieutenant in the Thirteenth Regiment, Kentucky Infantry; was admitted to the bar in 1813 and commenced the practice of law in Glasgow, Ky.; served as town trustee and county auditor until 1823; member of the State house of representatives 1816-1819; moved to Bowling Green, Ky., in 1823; presidential elector on the Clay ticket in 1824; member of the State house of representatives in 1825 and 1826; unsuccessful Whig candidate for Lieutenant Governor of Kentucky in 1828; judge of the court of appeals 1828-1835; elected as a Whig to the Twenty-fourth and to the three succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1835-March 3, 1843); declined to be a candidate for renomination; resumed the practice of law; presidential elector on the Whig ticket of Clay and Frelinghuysen in 1844; member of the State house of representatives in 1846 and served as speaker; elected as a Whig to the United States Senate and served from March 4, 1847, to March 3, 1853; was not a candidate for reelection; served in the State house of representatives in 1861; delegate to the Democratic National Convention at Chicago in 1864; resumed the practice of law and also engaged in agricultural pursuits; died near Bowling Green, Ky., August 23, 1876; interment in Fairview Cemetery, Bowling Green, Ky.
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Chicago: U.S. Congress, "Underwood, Joseph Rogers," Biographical Directory of the American Congress, 1774-1949 in U.S. Congress, Biographical Directory of the American Congress, 1774–1949 (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1950), P.1942 1943. Original Sources, accessed December 6, 2024, http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=U6DZTRAFHGNSV1E.
MLA: U.S. Congress. "Underwood, Joseph Rogers." Biographical Directory of the American Congress, 1774-1949, in U.S. Congress, Biographical Directory of the American Congress, 1774–1949 (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1950), P.1942, page 1943. Original Sources. 6 Dec. 2024. http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=U6DZTRAFHGNSV1E.
Harvard: U.S. Congress, 'Underwood, Joseph Rogers' in Biographical Directory of the American Congress, 1774-1949. cited in , U.S. Congress, Biographical Directory of the American Congress, 1774–1949 (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1950), P.1942, pp.1943. Original Sources, retrieved 6 December 2024, from http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=U6DZTRAFHGNSV1E.
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