David S. Kaufman
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David Spangler Kaufman (December 18, 1813 – January 31, 1851) was a U.S. Representative from Texas.
Born in Boiling Springs, Pennsylvania, Kaufman pursued classical studies and was graduated from Princeton College in 1833. He studied law. He was admitted to the bar in Natchez, Mississippi, and commenced practice in Natchitoches, Louisiana. He moved to Nacogdoches, Republic of Texas, in 1837. He served against the Indians. He served as member of the Texas House of Representatives 1839-1843. He served in the Texas Senate 1843-1845. He was appointed Chargé d'Affaires of Texas to the United States in 1845. He moved to Lowes Ferry, Texas. Upon the admission of Texas as a State into the Union was elected as a Democrat to the Twenty-ninth Congress. He was reelected to the Thirtieth and Thirty-first Congresses and served from March 30, 1846, until his death in Washington, D.C., on January 31, 1851. He served as chairman of the Committee on Rules (Thirty-first Congress). He was interred in the Congressional Cemetery. He was reinterred in the State Cemetery at Austin, Texas, in 1932. Kaufman County, Texas is named after him.
