William Allen Trimble (April 4, 1786December 13, 1821) was a

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politician from

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. He was in the

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Trimble was born in Woodford,

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, the son of James and Jane (Allen) Trimble. He graduated from Transylvania College and was

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in 1811. He briefly practiced law in

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, from 1811 to 1812. In the subsequent years he served in a variety of capacities, mostly with the Ohio militia and the

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in campaigns against the Pottawatomie Indians. He was a major of the Ohio Volunteers in 1812 and major of the Twenty-sixth United States Infantry in 1813. He was promoted to lieutenant colonel of the First United States Infantry in 1814. He was transferred to the Eighth United States Infantry in 1815 and served there until his resignation in 1819, following his election to the U.S. Senate for the term beginning in 1819. Trimble was in the Senate until his death two years later. He died in

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, on December 13, 1821, and is interred in the

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in Washington, D.C.

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* Tuttle, Mary McArthur Thompson: "William Allen Trimble, United States Senator from Ohio." (July 1905). Ohio Archaeological and Historical Quarterly 14.

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