William Singleton Young

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William Singleton Young (April 10, 1790 - September 20, 1827) was a U.S. Representative from Kentucky, brother of Bryan Rust Young and uncle of John Young Brown.

Born near Bardstown, Kentucky, Young studied medicine with Dr. Bemiss, of Bloomfield, and was graduated from the University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky. He commenced practice in Bloomfield, Kentucky. He moved to Elizabethtown, Kentucky, in 1814 and continued the practice of law.

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, September 20, 1827, before the assembling of the Twentieth Congress. He was interred in Elizabethtown Cemetery.

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• William Singleton Young at the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress