John Duncan Young (22 September 1823-26 December 1910) was a member of the US House of Representatives (D-KY 10) from 4 March 1873 to 3 March 1875, preceding John Blades Clarke.
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John Duncan Young was born in Owingsville, Kentucky on 22 September 1823, and he became a lawyer in 1854 and served as acting US Marshal of Kentucky under President Franklin Pierce. He went on to serve as a Bath County judge from 1858 to 1862 and from 1866 to 1867, when he was elected to the US Congress before his victory was invalidated for its use of intimidation and fraud. He finally served in the US House of Representatives from 1873 to 1875, and he later served as a state railroad commissioner and judge before dying in 1910.