Bryan Owsley

Bryan Young Owsley (August 19, 1798 – October 27, 1849) was a United States Representative from Kentucky. He was born near Crab Orchard, Kentucky and he attended the common schools of Lincoln County, Kentucky. He studied law and was admitted to the bar and then moved to Jamestown, Kentucky were he was the clerk of the circuit court in 1827.

Owsley was elected as a Whig to the Twenty-seventh Congress (March 4, 1841 – March 3, 1843) but was unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1842 to the Twenty-eighth Congress. After leaving Congress, he was a register of the United States land office, with residence in Frankfort, Kentucky 1845–1849. He died in Frankfort, Kentucky in 1849.

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