William A. Trimble

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{{Infobox Officeholder

|name = William Allen Trimble

|image = Sen William Trimble.jpg

|jr/sr = United States Senator

|state = Ohio

|term_start = March 4, 1819

|term_end = December 13, 1821

|predecessor = Jeremiah Morrow

|successor = Ethan A. Brown

|birth_date = {{birth date|1786|4|4}}

|birth_place = Woodford County, Kentucky

|death_date = {{death date and age|1821|12|13|1786|4|4}}

|death_place = Washington, D.C.

|resting_place = Congressional Cemetery
Washington, D.C.

|party = Democratic-Republican

|alma_mater = Transylvania College

|spouse =

|children =

|branch = United States Army

|serviceyears = 1812–1819

|unit = Eighth United States Infantry

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William Allen Trimble (April 4, 1786{{spaced ndash}}December 13, 1821) was a Democratic-Republican politician from Ohio. He was in the United States Senate.

Biography

Trimble was born in Woodford, Kentucky, the son of James and Jane (Allen) Trimble. He graduated from Transylvania College and was admitted to the bar in 1811. He briefly practiced law in Highland County, Ohio, from 1811 to 1812.{{cite book|last1=Tucker|first1=Spencer C.|title=The Encyclopedia Of the War Of 1812: A Political, Social, and Military|date=2012|publisher=ABC-CLIO|page=717|isbn=9781851099573|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VljA5QEI9_wC&pg=PA717 |access-date=17 July 2014}}

In the subsequent years he served in a variety of capacities, mostly with the Ohio militia and the U.S. Army in campaigns against the Pottawatomie Indians. He was a major of the Ohio Volunteers in 1812 and major of the Twenty-sixth United States Infantry in 1813. He was promoted to lieutenant colonel of the First United States Infantry in 1814.{{cite book|last1=Lanman|first1=Charles|title=Biographical Annals of the Civil Government of the United States: During Its First Century. From Original and Official Sources|date=1876|publisher=J. Anglim|page=[https://archive.org/details/biographicalann00lanmgoog/page/n473 431]|url=https://archive.org/details/biographicalann00lanmgoog |access-date=17 July 2014}} He was transferred to the Eighth United States Infantry in 1815 and served there until his resignation in 1819, following his election to the U.S. Senate for the term beginning in 1819.

Trimble was in the Senate until his death two years later. He died in Washington, D.C., on December 13, 1821,{{cite book|last1=Old Northwest" Genealogical Society|title=The "Old Northwest" Genealogical Quarterly, Volume 12|date=1909|publisher=Old Northwest" Genealogical Society|page=16|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=T9UyAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA16 |access-date=17 July 2014}} and is interred in the Congressional Cemetery in Washington, D.C.{{cite web|url= http://www.congressionalcemetery.org/hon-william-trimble|title= Hon. William A. Trimble|publisher=Historical Congressional Cemetery|access-date= July 16, 2014}}

Notes

References

Tuttle, Mary McArthur Thompson: "William Allen Trimble, United States Senator from Ohio." (July 1905). Ohio Archaeological and Historical Quarterly 14.