Presley Underwood Ewing (September 1, 1822 – September 27, 1854) was a

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from

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. Born in

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, Ewing attended the public schools. He completed preparatory studies. He was graduated from

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, Danville, Kentucky, in 1840 and from the law school of

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, Lexington, Kentucky, in 1843. He studied theology at the Baptist Seminary at

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, in 1845 and 1846. He returned to Kentucky and practiced law in Russellville. He served as member of the Kentucky House of Representatives in 1848 and 1849. Ewing was elected as a Whig to the Thirty-second and Thirty-third Congresses and served from March 4, 1851, until his death in the town of Mammoth Cave, Kentucky, September 27, 1854. He was interred in Maple Grove Cemetery,

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Ewing, Presley Underwood 1822 births 1854 deaths Centre College alumni Transylvania University alumni Kentucky lawyers Members of the Kentucky House of Representatives Whig Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Kentucky 19th-century American legislators 19th-century American lawyers

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