{{Short description|American politician (1864–1946)}} {{Use mdy dates|date=May 2022}} {{primary sources|date=September 2015}} {{Infobox officeholder | name = South Trimble | image = South Trimble - Harris Ewing.jpg | alt = A balding man wearing a black jacket, vest, and tie, and white shirt, seated, leaning his left elbow on a table and his face against his extended left index finger | order1 = 27th and 29th | office1 = Clerk of the United States House of Representatives | term_start1 = April 4, 1911{{spaced ndash}}May 18, 1919<br />December 7, 1931 | term_end1 = November 23, 1946 | 1blankname1 = Speaker | 1namedata1 = {{ubl |Champ Clark (1911-1919)<br>John Nance Garner<br>Henry T. Rainey<br>Jo Byrns<br>William B. Bankhead<br>Sam Rayburn (1931-1946)}} | predecessor1 = Alexander McDowell<br />William Tyler Page | successor1 = William Tyler Page<br />Harry Newlin Megill | state2 = Kentucky | district2 = {{ushr|KY|7|7th}} | term_start2 = March 4, 1901 | term_end2 = March 3, 1907 | predecessor2 = June Ward Gayle | successor2 = William P. Kimball | office3 = Member of the Kentucky House of Representatives | term_start3 = 1898 | term_end3 = 1900 | birth_date = {{birth date|1864|04|13}} | birth_place = Wolfe County, Kentucky, U.S. | death_date = {{death date and age|1946|11|23|1864|04|13}} | death_place = Washington, D.C., U.S. | resting_place = Frankfort Cemetery | party = Democratic | occupation = {{hlist|Farmer|politician}} | signature = | signature_alt = }} '''South Trimble''' (April 13, 1864 &ndash; November 23, 1946) was a U.S. representative from Kentucky. He was a prominent member of the famed South–Cockrell–Hargis family of Southern politicians.

==Biography== Born near Hazel Green, Kentucky, to Asberry Trimble who was killed by his brother in law, Edward Hensley as he was putting his slaves to work at the Trimble Tannery during the American Civil War on October 15, 1864. Trimble's mother bought and moved to a Franklin County, Kentucky home where he attended the public schools of Frankfort and Excelsior Institute.

He engaged in agricultural pursuits near Frankfort, Kentucky, including turkey farming. In 1913, Trimble became the second person to present a turkey to the President of the United States, hoping to break the 40-year monopoly that Horace Vose, the Westerly, Rhode Island turkey farmer who had provided the President's turkeys since 1873, had on the practice. Trimble was insistent that his turkeys, though smaller than Vose's, were more flavorful due to more red pepper in their diets. No record exists of whether or not Trimble or Vose won out, but Vose's death later in 1913 ensured a heated rivalry over the ensuing decades for the honors that was not settled until the National Turkey Federation took over in 1947.<ref name=strangetruth>Montanaro, Domenico (November 25, 2015). [https://www.npr.org/2015/11/25/457253194/the-strange-truth-behind-presidential-turkey-pardons Ahead of Thanksgiving, Obama to Pardon Another Turkey. The Strange Truth Behind the Odd Event] ''National Public Radio''. Retrieved November 25, 2020.</ref>

He served as a member of the Kentucky House of Representatives 1898-1900 and as Speaker in 1900, and was "married November 24, 1885, to Miss Carrie Bell Allan, of Galveston, Tex."<ref name="cd">{{cite web |title=S. Doc. 58-1 - Fifty-eighth Congress. (Extraordinary session -- beginning November 9, 1903.) Official Congressional Directory for the use of the United States Congress. Compiled under the direction of the Joint Committee on Printing by A.J. Halford. Special edition. Corrections made to November 5, 1903 |url=https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/SERIALSET-04562_00_00-001-0001-0000 |website=GovInfo.gov |publisher=U.S. Government Printing Office |access-date=2 July 2023 |page=39 |date=9 November 1903}}</ref>

Trimble was elected as a Democrat to the Fifty-seventh, Fifty-eighth, and Fifty-ninth Congresses (March 4, 1901 – March 3, 1907).{{r|cd}} He did not seek renomination in 1906, and was an unsuccessful Democratic candidate for Lieutenant Governor of Kentucky. He was Clerk of the United States House of Representatives, first, from April 4, 1911, to May 18, 1919.<ref name="2023-01-05_Clerk-History">[https://clerk.house.gov/About#HistoryOfOffice History of the Office (1789 to Present)], Office of the Clerk of the United States House of Representatives, accessed 2023-01-05</ref>

He retired from public life and operated a plantation near Selma, Alabama.

He again served as Clerk of the House of Representatives from December 7, 1931, until his death in Washington, D.C., November 23, 1946.<ref name="2023-01-05_Clerk-History" /> He was interred in Frankfort Cemetery, Frankfort, Kentucky.

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