Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
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]
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.
Tennessee leaders thereby converted the territory into a new state, with organized government and constitution, before applying to Congress for admission. Since the Southwest Territory was the first Federal territory to present itself for admission to the Union, there was some uncertainty about how to proceed, and Congress was divided on the issue.
Congress accepted North Carolina's western cession, which consisted of what is now Tennessee, on April 2, 1790. In May, the Southwest Territory was created from the new cession and was to be governed under the Northwest Ordinance. On June 8, President George Washington appointed Blount governor of the new
[5] Even though Tennessee was not yet a state, some government was organized to administer the territory. William Blount was appointed as the first official governor of Tennessee, James White became the state's first representative in Congress, and Tennessee's political party history under European Americans was started. The majority party in ...
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.
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.
John Sevier (September 23, 1745 – September 24, 1815) was an American soldier, frontiersman, and politician, and one of the founding fathers of the State of Tennessee.A member of the Democratic-Republican Party, he played a leading role in Tennessee's pre-statehood period, both militarily and politically, and he was elected the state's first governor in 1796.