South Trimble
South Trimble was a U.S. Representative from Kentucky. He was a prominent member of the famed South–Cockrell–Hargis-Trimble family of Southern politicians.Biography
Born near Hazel Green, Kentucky, to Asberry Trimble who was killed by his brother in law, Edward Hensley as he was putting his slaves to work at the Trimble Tannery during the American Civil War on October 15, 1864. Trimble's mother bought and moved to a Franklin County, Kentucky home where he attended the public schools of Frankfort and Excelsior Institute.
He engaged in agricultural pursuits near Frankfort, Kentucky.
He served as a member of the Kentucky House of Representatives 1898-1900, serving as Speaker in 1900.
Trimble was elected as a Democrat to the Fifty-seventh, Fifty-eighth, and Fifty-ninth Congresses. He did not seek renomination in 1906, and was an unsuccessful Democratic candidate for Lieutenant Governor of Kentucky. He was Clerk of the United States House of Representatives from April 4, 1911, to May 18, 1919.
He retired from public life and operated a plantation near Selma, Alabama.
He again served as Clerk of the House of Representatives from December 7, 1931, until his death in Washington, D.C., November 23, 1946.
He died on November 23, 1946 in Washington, D. C., and was interred in Frankfort Cemetery, Frankfort, Kentucky.
