Luther Martin Kennett (15 March 1807-12 April 1873) was the Whig Mayor of St. Louis from 1850 to 1853 (succeeding James G. Barry and preceding John How) and a member of the US House of Representatives (W-MO 1) from 4 March 1855 to 3 March 1857 (succeeding Thomas Hart Benton and preceding Francis Preston Blair Jr.).
Biography[]
Luther Martin Kennett was born in Falmouth, Kentucky in 1807, and he served as Pendleton County clerk from 1822 to 1823 and Campbell County clerk in 1824 before becoming a merchant in St. Louis in 1825. He served as vice-president of a railroad company, as Mayor from 1850 to 1853, and in the US House of Representatives from 1855 to 1857, and he moved to Europe in 1867 and died in Paris in 1873.