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Robertson, Thomas A

lawyer, state legislator, congressman, was born Sept. 9, 1848, in Hodgensville, Ky. He was twice elected school commissioner of La Rue county, Ky.; and afterward was elected county attorney. In 1877 he was elected a representative in the state legislature. He was elected a representative from Kentucky to the forty-eighth congress; and was re-elected to the fortyninth congress as a democrat. a ROBERTSON, THOMAS BOLLING, Virginian, became Louisiana's governor in 1820. In 1805 he moved from Virginia to the territory of New Orleans; and became its attorney general. In 1807 he was secretary of the territory, and for a time acted as United States district attorney.

He was the first representative elected to the United States congress from Louisiana after it became a state. He resigned the governorship in 1824 to accept the United States judgeship. He died Oct. 5, 1828, in White Sulphur Springs, Va.