Posey, Thomas, 1750-1818

Thomas Posey (July 9, 1750 – March 19, 1818) was an officer rising to the rank of Brigadier General in the Continental Army, under commanding General George Washington (1732-1799, commanded 1775-1784), in the American Revolutionary War (1775-1783), a later commissioned lieutenant colonel during peacetime,in the regular United States Army.but involved in the Northwest Indian War (1785-1795). Later served in the Kentucky Senate as a Kentucky state senator and as Speaker of the Kentucky Senate, the upper chamber of the Kentucky Legislature (state legislature), meeting at the Kentucky State Capitol at the state capital of Frankfort, then the third Lieutenant Governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, Then the third Governor of the Indiana Territory, 1813-1816, appointed by the fourth President, James Madison (1759-1836, served 1809-1817), during the last three years of the Territory's existence before admission to the federal Union as the xx state of Indiana. Following as a United States Senator in the United States Senate in the upper chamber of the Congress of the United States, meeting at the United States Capitol on Capitol Hill in the federal national capital city of Washington, D.C. (District of Columbia)