William Singleton Young
American politician
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| Intro | American politician | |
| A.K.A. | William Young | |
| A.K.A. | William Young | |
| Places | United States of America | |
| was | Politician Lawyer | |
| Work field | Law Politics | |
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| Birth | 10 April 1790 | |
| Death | 20 September 1827 (aged 37 years) | |
| Star sign | Aries |
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William Singleton Young (April 10, 1790 – September 20, 1827) was a U.S. Representative from Kentucky, brother of Bryan Rust Young and uncle of John Young Brown.
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Young was born near Bardstown, Kentucky. Although he initially studied medicine with a Dr. Bemiss, of Bloomfield, he graduated from the University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky, with a law degree. He commenced practice in Bloomfield, Kentucky, and continued in this after moving to Elizabethtown, Kentucky, in 1814.
Young was elected to the Nineteenth Congress. He was reelected to the Twentieth Congress and served from March 4, 1825, until his death in Elizabethtown, on September 20, 1827, before the assembling of the Twentieth Congress. He was interred in Elizabethtown Cemetery.