Background
Young, William Singleton was born on April 10, 1790 in near Bardstown, Kentucky, United States.
United States representative politician
Young, William Singleton was born on April 10, 1790 in near Bardstown, Kentucky, United States.
Although he initially studied medicine with a Doctor Bemiss, of Bloomfield, he graduated from the University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky, with a law degree.
He commenced practice in Bloomfield, Kentucky, and continued in this after moving to Elizabethtown, Kentucky, in 1814. Young was elected to the Nineteenth Congress. He was reelected to the Twentieth Congress and served from March 4, 1825, until his death in Elizabethtown, on September 20, 1827, before the assembling of the Twentieth Congress.
He was interred in Elizabethtown Cemetery.
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