Bryan Rust YOUNG, Congress, KY (1800-1882)

YOUNG, Bryan Rust, (brother of William Singleton Young and uncle of John Young Brown), a Representative from Kentucky; born near Bardstown, Nelson County, Ky., January 14, 1800; attended the common schools and was graduated from the University of Louisville, Louisville, Ky.; studied medicine and practiced his profession in Nelson County, Ky.; member of State house of representatives in 1858-1859, 1861-1862, and 1863-1864; elected as a Whig to the Twenty-ninth Congress (March 4, 1845-March 3, 1847); resumed the practice of medicine; died in Elizabethtown, Ky., May 14, 1882; interment in Elizabethtown Cemetery.

Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present