US Congressman. The son of Senator John Leeds Kerr, he was an 1830 graduate of Harvard University. He was admitted to the bar in 1833 and began the practice of law in Easton, Maryland. After serving in the Maryland house of delegates from 1836 to 1838, he served a single term as a Whig Congressman from Maryland from 1849 to 1851. He did not run for reelection, but was appointed Chargé d'Affaires to Nicaragua by President Fillmore, from 1851 to 1853. He resumed the practice of law in Baltimore and was appointed one of the solicitors in the Court of Claims in Washington, DC. His last government position was as solicitor in the office of the Sixth Auditor of the Treasury Department, which he occupied at his death in 1878.
US Congressman. The son of Senator John Leeds Kerr, he was an 1830 graduate of Harvard University. He was admitted to the bar in 1833 and began the practice of law in Easton, Maryland. After serving in the Maryland house of delegates from 1836 to 1838, he served a single term as a Whig Congressman from Maryland from 1849 to 1851. He did not run for reelection, but was appointed Chargé d'Affaires to Nicaragua by President Fillmore, from 1851 to 1853. He resumed the practice of law in Baltimore and was appointed one of the solicitors in the Court of Claims in Washington, DC. His last government position was as solicitor in the office of the Sixth Auditor of the Treasury Department, which he occupied at his death in 1878.
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