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About Samuel McDowell
Samuel McDowell was a soldier in three wars and political leader in Virginia and Kentucky. He served under George Washington in the French and Indian War, as an aide-de-camp to Isaac Shelby in Lord Dunmore's War, and under Nathanael Greene during the Revolutionary War. He then relocated to Kentucky and became a surveyor. Later, he was appointed one of the first district court judges in what would become the state of Kentucky. He became a leader of the movement to separate Kentucky from Virginia, and presided over nine of the state's ten constitutional conventions. He was the father of Dr. Ephraim McDowell.
Everything about Samuel McDowell →- Occupation
- lawyer, judge, politician
- Position held
- member of the Virginia House of Delegates
- Citizenship
- United States
- Born
- October 29, 1735
- Died
- September 25, 1817