Robert Emmett Bledsoe was born in Lincoln County, Kentucky back in 1793 to Walker and Jane. During the war of 1812 he served in the Kentucky militia. After the war, he moved to Alabama where he practiced law while continuing to further his political career. He was elected to the Alabama House of Representatives to the Twenty-first Congress. During the Creek War in 1836 he fought as a lieutenant colonel. In 1839, he converted to Christianity being ordained as a Baptist minister.
When he was 46 he moved to Texas where he worked as the Third Judicial District as a judge. He was one of the first officers of the Texas Baptist Educational Society. In 1844, he petitioned the Congress of the Republic of Texas asking for a charter for a Baptist university. He never married and had no children. He died in Independence, Texas in 1874 at 80.
What you may not know about Robert Emmett Bledsoe Baylor is that the university he co-founded was, Baylor University.
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