Thomas Bell Monroe (October 7, 1791 – December 24, 1865) was the 15th
Secretary of State of Kentucky and a
United States district judge of the
United States District Court for the District of Kentucky.
Education and career
Born on October 7, 1791, in
Albemarle County,
Virginia, Monroe attended
Transylvania University and
read law
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in 1821. He was a member of the
Kentucky House of Representatives
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in 1816. He entered private practice in
Frankfort,
Kentucky starting in 1821. He was the 15th
Secretary of State of Kentucky from 1823 to 1824. He was reporter for the
Kentucky Court of Appeals starting in 1825. He was the
United States Attorney for the District of Kentucky from 1830 to 1834.
Federal judicial service
Monroe was nominated by President
Andrew Jackson on February 20, 1834, to a seat on the
United States District Court for the District of Kentucky vacated by Judge
John Boyle. He was confirmed by the
United States Senate on March 6, 1834, and received his commission on March 8, 1834. His service terminated on September 18, 1861, due to his resignation.
Other service
Concurrent with his federal judicial service, Monroe was a law teacher in Montrose,
Kentucky from 1843 to 1848, Chairman of the Law Department at Transylvania University starting in 1848, and a Professor of law at
Tulane University from 1848 to
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1851.
Later career and death
Following his resignation from the federal bench, Monroe was a delegate from Kentucky to the
Provisional Congress of the Confederate States from 1861 to 1862. He resumed private practice in
Richmond
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, Virginia in 1862. He died on December 24, 1865, in
Pass Christian,
Mississippi.
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1791 births
1865 deaths
United States Attorneys for the District of Kentucky
Judges of the United States District Court for the District of Kentucky
United States federal judges appointed by Andrew Jackson
19th-century American judges
Members of the Kentucky House of Representatives
People from Albemarle County, Virginia
Secretaries of State of Kentucky
Transylvania University alumni
United States federal judges admitted to the practice of law by reading law