Lawrence S. Trimble


Lawrence Strother Trimble was a United States congressman from Kentucky, a Kentucky judge, and New Mexican politician and lawyer.

Trimble was born in Fleming County, Kentucky to the farming family of James and Harriet Trimble. He completed preparatory studies and later studied law there, and was admitted to the bar there at the age of 22. In 1847, he moved to Paducah, opened a law practice and entered politics. He served as a representative in Kentuckys legislature from 1851 to 1853. Trimble was a slaveholder up to the Civil War. He was elected as a judge for the equity and criminal court in the First Judicial District of Kentucky in 1856 and served until 1860. From 1860 until 1865 he was president of the New Orleans amp Ohio Railroad Company.

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