A new article has been added at Newspaper Abstracts > United States > Kentucky > Jefferson http://www.newspaperabstracts.com/index.php?action=displaycat&catid=2681 Also visit our new sister site: http://www.Genealogy101.com Direct link to article: http://www.newspaperabstracts.com/link.php?id=40686 Submitted by: SharonTMSI Article Title: Jeffersonville News Article Date: April 5 1893 Article Description: Governor David Meriweather Dead Article Text: Governor David Meriweather Dead Ex-Governor David Meriweather died yesterday at his home, a short distance below Louisville, at the great age of over ninety-two. Born in Virginia October 30, 1800, he moved to Kentucky when a boy. He entered political life early; was thirteen times a member of the state legislature, and one its speaker; was a member of the constitutional convention of 1849-50; succeeded Henry Clay in the United States Senate by appointment and was Governor of New Mexico from 1853 to 1857. The last few years of his life were tranquilly spent upon his farm. He was the father of Col. J.B. Meriweather of this city ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ KY-Old-News ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ NewspaperAbstracts.com - Finding our ancestors in the news! TM http://www.NewspaperAbstracts.com