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The 1796 United States House of Representatives election in Tennessee was held on October 15, 1796, to determine the first Congressman of Tennessee. Tennessee was admitted to the United States on June 1, 1796. Democratic-Republican candidate, Andrew Jackson defend his Nonpartisan opponent, James Roby, with 98.9% of the vote. [1] [2]
Jackson was nominated for president by the Tennessee legislature in October 1825, more than three years before the 1828 election. [174] He gained powerful supporters in both the South and North, including Calhoun, who became Jackson's vice-presidential running mate, and New York Senator Martin Van Buren. [ 175 ]
Future presidents who served as members of the U.S. House of Representatives from Tennessee are: Andrew Jackson (1796–1797, at-large), James K. Polk (1825–1839, 6th and 9th) and Andrew Johnson (1843–1853, 1st) The following is an alphabetical list of members of the United States House of Representatives from the state of Tennessee.
The district was also the home of the first exclusively abolitionist periodicals in the nation, The Manumission Intelligencer and The Emancipator, founded in Jonesborough by Elihu Embree in 1819. [7] The 1st was one of four districts in Tennessee whose congressmen did not resign when Tennessee seceded from the Union in 1861.
Hugh Lawson White (October 30, 1773 – April 10, 1840) was an American politician during the first third of the 19th century. After filling in several posts particularly in Tennessee's judiciary and state legislature since 1801, thereunder as a Tennessee Supreme Court justice, he was chosen to succeed former presidential candidate Andrew Jackson in the United States Senate in 1825.
He represented Tennessee's 1st Congressional District in the 36th U.S. Congress (1859–1861), where he gained a reputation as a staunch pro-Union southerner. He was elected to a second term in 1861 on the eve of the Civil War , but was arrested by Confederate authorities before he could take his seat.
Born on December 5, 1782, Martin Van Buren was the first president born an American citizen (and not a British subject). [2] The term Virginia dynasty is sometimes used to describe the fact that four of the first five U.S. presidents were from Virginia.
One of Tennessee's most prominent antebellum politicians, [1] Bell served in the House of Representatives from 1827 to 1841, and in the Senate from 1847 to 1859. He was Speaker of the House for the 23rd Congress (1834–1835), and briefly served as Secretary of War during the administration of William Henry Harrison (1841).