Micah Taul was a U.S. Representative

United States House of Representatives

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 from Kentucky

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, grandfather of Taul Bradford

Taul Bradford

Taul Bradford was a U.S. Representative from Alabama.Born in Talladega, Alabama, Bradford attended the local school. He graduated from the University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa in 1854...

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Born in Bladensburg, Maryland

Bladensburg, Maryland

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, Taul moved to Kentucky with his parents in 1787.
He attended private school.
He studied law.
He was admitted to the bar

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 in 1801 and commenced practice in Monticello, Kentucky

Monticello, Kentucky

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He served as clerk of Wayne County Courts in 1801.
He served as a colonel of Wayne County Volunteers in the War of 1812.

Taul was elected as a Democratic-Republican

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 to the Fourteenth

14th United States Congress

- Senate :* President: Vacant* President pro tempore: John Gaillard of South Carolina, first elected December 4, 1815- House of Representatives :* Speaker: Henry Clay of Kentucky-Members:This list is arranged by chamber, then by state...

 Congress (March 4, 1815-March 3, 1817).
He declined to be a candidate for renomination in 1816.
He resumed the practice of law.
He moved to Winchester, Tennessee

Winchester, Tennessee

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, in 1826 and continued the practice of law.
He moved to Mardisville, Alabama, in 1846 and engaged in agricultural pursuits until his death there on May 27, 1850.
He was interred on his plantation at Mardisville.