Historical Sketches of Kentucky by Lewis Collins, Maysville, KY. and J. A.
& U. P. James, Cincinnati, 1847. Reprinted 1968. Fayette County.

     Among the distinguished men who have made Fayette county their
residence, was the late RICHARD H. MENIFEE, whose premature death cast a
gloom over the whole State.  It has been the fortune of but few men, of
the same age, to leave behind them a reputation so brilliant.  Born in
obscurity, and forced to struggle in early life against an array of
hostile influences sufficient to have crushed any common spirit, he had,
at the period of his early death, attained an eminence which fixed upon
him the eyes of all America, as one of our most promising statesmen.  He
was a native of Bath county, and in early life taught a school to supply
himself with the means of obtaining a profession.  His success at the bar
was rapid and brilliant.  He was barely eligible, when he was elected to
represent the county of Montgomery in the Kentucky legislature.  In this
body he established a character for ability which spread his name through
the State.  At twenty-seven years of age, he was elected to Congress.  His
efforts on the floor of the house, bearing the impress of high genius and
commanding talent soon placed him in the front rank of debaters, at a time
when Congress was remarkable for the number of its able men.  At the close
of his term of service, he removed to Lexington, and devoted himself to
the practice of his profession.  Business flowed in upon him, and he was
rapidly amassing a fortune, which would have enabled him to re-enter
public life, and accomplish those ardent desires cherished from his early
boyhood, when his career was prematurely checked by death.  He died at his
residence in Lexington, in 1840, in the thirty-first year of his age.

Menifee
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