George Keats
American politician
Died when: 44 years 299 days (537 months)Star Sign: Pisces
George Keats (28 February 1797 – 24 December 1841) was a British-American businessman and civic leader in Louisville, Kentucky, as it emerged from a frontier entrepôt into a mercantile centre of the old northwest.
He was also the younger brother of the Romantic poet John Keats.During the years from 1821 to 1841, Keats led a philosophical society, meant to overcome Louisville's raw culture, operating a literary salon in his living room which evolvedinto the Lyceum and then into the board of Louisville College, the precursor to the University of Louisville.
In 1827, Keats was elected to the Ohio Bridge Commission, laying the foundation for the river's first crossing.The state government appointed him to the board of the Bank of Kentucky in 1832.
He joined the boards of ten other organisations, including the Kentucky Historical Society and the Harlan Museum, which he headed.
In 1841, he was elected to the city council.
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