Solomon P. Sharp, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Solomon P. Sharp

American politician

Date of Birth: 22-Aug-1787

Place of Birth: Abingdon, Virginia, United States

Date of Death: 07-Nov-1825

Profession: lawyer, politician

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Leo


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About Solomon P. Sharp

  • Solomon Porcius Sharp (August 22, 1787 – November 7, 1825) was an American attorney and politician, serving as attorney general of Kentucky and a member of the United States Congress and the Kentucky General Assembly.
  • His murder by Jereboam O.
  • Beauchamp in 1825 is referred to as the Beauchamp–Sharp Tragedy or "The Kentucky Tragedy." Sharp began his political career representing Warren County, in the Kentucky House of Representatives.
  • He briefly served in the War of 1812, then returned to Kentucky and was elected to the U.S.
  • House of Representatives in 1813.
  • He was re-elected to a second term, though his support of a controversial bill regarding legislator salaries cost him his seat in 1816.
  • Allied with Kentucky's Debt Relief Party, he returned to the Kentucky House in 1817; in 1821, he accepted Governor John Adair's appointment to the post of Attorney General of Kentucky.
  • Adair's successor, Joseph Desha, re-appointed him to this position.
  • In 1825, Sharp resigned as attorney general to return to the Kentucky House. In 1820, rumors surfaced that Sharp had fathered a stillborn illegitimate child with Anna Cooke, a planter's daughter.
  • Sharp denied the charge, and the immediate political effects were minimal.
  • When the charges were repeated during Sharp's 1825 General Assembly campaign, opponents publicized the allegation that the child was a mulatto.
  • Whether Sharp made such a claim, or whether it was a rumor started by his political enemies, remains in doubt.
  • Jereboam Beauchamp, who had married Cooke in 1824, avenged the honor of his wife by fatally stabbing Sharp at his home early on the morning of November 7, 1825.
  • Sharp's murder inspired fictional works, most notably Edgar Allan Poe's unfinished play Politian and Robert Penn Warren's novel World Enough and Time (1950).

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