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Rep. Joseph Lecompte

Former Representative for Kentucky’s 6th District

Lecompte was the representative for Kentucky’s 6th congressional district and was a Jackson. He served from 1831 to 1833.

He was previously the representative for Kentucky’s 6th congressional district as a Jackson from 1829 to 1831; the representative for Kentucky’s 6th congressional district as a Jackson from 1827 to 1829; and the representative for Kentucky’s 6th congressional district as a Jackson from 1825 to 1827.

Legislators who enslaved Black people

Lecompte was among more than 1,800 legislators who enslaved Black people. The Washington Post compiled the first database of slaveholding members of Congress by examining thousands of pages of census records and historical documents. Lecompte was one of them.

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