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Tennessee Delegation

This is one of the 50 delegations in the convention, accounting for 23 of 713 people who took part.

Members (23):

Name Visualize Details Delegations
Samuel M. Arnell Visualize "(May 3, 1833 -- July 20, 1903) Samuel Mayes Arnell was a(n) lawyer, public servant, postmaster, superintendent, and American politician. He was born in Zion Settlement, near Columbia, Maury County, Tennessee. He studied law and was admitted to the bar. He served as a member of the constitutional convention of Tennessee (1865), served in the State house of representatives (1865 and 1866), was a postmaster of Columbia (1879 - 1884), and superintendent of schools (1884 - 1886). Samuel was elected as an Unconditional Unionist to the 39th Congress, was reelected as a Republican to the 40th and 41st Congresses (July 24, 1866 - March 3, 1871), and served as chairman on the Committee on Expenditures in the Department of State (40th Congress) and Committee on Education and Labor (41st Congress). He was not reelected in 1870. [Source: 'Biographical Directory of the United States Congress 1774 - present', available at https://bioguideretro.congress.gov/Home/MemberDetails?memIndex=A000286]" Tennessee Delegation (United States Fifteenth Amendment) , Tennessee Delegation (United States Fourteenth Amendment & The Civil Rights Act of 1866) , Tennessee Delegation (This negotiation)
John D. C. Atkins Visualize (June 4, 1825 — June 2, 1908) Atkins was a businessman and politician. John De Witt Clinton Atkins was born in Henry County, Tennessee in 1825. He graduated from East Tennessee University at Knoxville in 1845, after which he studied law and was admitted to the bar. However, Atkins did not practice law, rather, he entered the agriculture business. He served in the State House of Representatives from 1849 to 1851, and in the State Senate from 1855 to 1857. Atkins served in the United States House of Representatives for the first time from March 4, 1857 to 1859. During the Civil War, he enlisted in the the Confederate Army and attained the rank of lieutenant colonel. He was also elected to the Confederate Provisional Congress in 1861 and served until 1863. After the war, Aktins was again elected as a Democrat to the United States House of Representatives and served from March 4, 1873 to March 3, 1883. After serving in Congress, he returned to Tennessee and continued working in agriculture. [Source: “Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1774 - Present,” available at https://bioguide.congress.gov/search/bio/A000327] Tennessee Delegation (This negotiation)
John M. Bright Visualize (January 20, 1817 — October 3, 1911) Bright was an American politician and lawyer. John Morgan Bright was born in Fayetteville, Tennessee in 1817. He graduated from Nashville (Tennessee) University in 1839 and from the law department of Transylvania University, in Kentucky, in 1841. Bright was admitted to the bar in 1841 and practiced law in Fayetteville, Tennessee. He served as a member of the State House of Representatives and also as a general on the staff of the Governor of Tennessee from 1861 to 1865. Bright was elected as a Democrat to the United States House of Representatives and served from March 4, 1871 to March 3, 1881. [Source: “Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1774 - Present,” available at https://bioguide.congress.gov/search/bio/B000836] Tennessee Delegation (This negotiation)
William G. Brownlow Visualize (August 29, 1805 — April 29, 1887) Brownlow was a Methodist minister, journalist, and politician. William Gannaway Brownlow was born in Whytheville, Virginia in 1805 and moved to Tennessee in 1828. In 1826, Brownlow entered the Methodist ministry and continued his ministerial duties after moving to Tennessee in 1828. While in Tennessee, he acted as editor and publisher of a newspaper. He served as delegate to the State constitutional convention that reorganized the State government in 1864. Brownlow was Governor of Tennessee in 1865 and 1867 before being elected to Congress. He was elected as a Republican to the United States Senate and served during the Forty-First, Forty-Second, and Forty-Third Congresses from March 4, 1869 to March 3, 1875. After serving in Congress, Brownlow returned to Tennessee and worked in journalism until his death in 1877. [Source: “Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1774 - Present,” available at https://bioguide.congress.gov/search/bio/B000963] Tennessee Delegation (This negotiation)
Roderick R. Butler Visualize "April 9, 1827 -- August 18th, 1902" Roderick Randum Butler was a(n) tailor, lawyer, postmaster, soldier, public servant, judge, and American politician. He was born in Wytheville, Virginia and moved to Taylorsville, Tennessee. Roderick studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1853. He was delegate to the Republican National Conventions (1864,1872, and 1876), delegate to the Tennessee state constitutional convention (1865), county judge, judge of the 1st circuit of Tennessee, chairman of the first state Republican executive committee of Tennessee, delegate to the Baltimore Border State Convention, president of the Republican state conventions (1869 and 1882), and member of the Tennessee state house of representatives (1879-1885). Butler served as a major of the First Battalion of the Tennessee Militia, in the Union Army as lieutenant colonel of the 13th Regiment of the Tennessee volunteer Cavalry (November 5, 1863 - April 25, 1864). Roderick also served as postmaster of Taylorsville and a member of the Tennessee state senate (1859 -1863 and 1893 -1901). Roderick was elected as a Republican to the 40th, 41st, 42nd, 43rd, 44th, and 50th Congresses (March 4, 1867 - March 3, 1875 and March 4, 1887 - March 3, 1889). Butler was censured by the U.S. House of Representatives (March 17, 1870) for selling an appointment to the United States Military Academy West Point. He was not elected to the 44th of 51st Congresses. During his time on Congress he served as chairman on the Committee on the Militia (43rd Congress). [Source: 'Biographical Directory of the United States Congress 1774 - Present', available at https://bioguideretro.congress.gov/Home/MemberDetails?memIndex=B001188]" Tennessee Delegation (United States Fifteenth Amendment) , Tennessee Delegation (This negotiation)
Robert P. Caldwell Visualize (December 16, 1821 — March 12, 1885) Caldwell was an American politician and lawyer. Robert Porter Caldwell was born in Adair County, Kentucky in 1821 and moved to Tennessee with his parents a few years later. He studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1845. Caldwell served in the State House of Representatives (1847, 1848) and in the State Senate (1855, 1856). During the Civil War, he enlisted in the Confederate Army and served as a major. After the war, Caldwell was elected as a Democrat to the United States House of Representatives and served from March 4, 1871 to March 3, 1873. [Source: “Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1774 - Present,” available at https://bioguide.congress.gov/search/bio/C000040] Tennessee Delegation (This negotiation)
Henry Cooper Visualize (August 22, 1827 — February 4, 1884) Cooper was a politician, judge, lawyer, and businessman. Henry Cooper was born in Columbia, Tennessee in 1827. He graduated from Jackson (Tennessee) College, studied law, and was admitted to the bar in 1850. Cooper served as a member of the State House of Representatives from 1853 to 1855, and again, from 1857 to 1859. He was then appointed as a judge of the seventh judicial circuit of Tennessee and served from 1862 to 1866. Before being elected to Congress, Caldwell served in the State Senate from 1869 to 1870. He was elected as a Democrat to the United States Senator and served for the Forty-Second, Forty-Third, and Forty-Fourth Congresses from March 4, 1871 to March 3, 1877. Caldwell was killed by bandits in Mexico, in 1884, while he was working in mining operations. [Source: “Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1774 - Present,” available at https://bioguide.congress.gov/search/bio/C000751] Tennessee Delegation (This negotiation)
William Crutchfield Visualize (November 16, 1824 — January 24, 1890) Crutchfield was a businessman and politician. William Crutchfield was born in Greenville, Tennessee in 1824. He moved to Alabama in 1844 and worked in agriculture. Although he was a permanent resident of Chattanooga, he was served in the Union Army during the Civil War. Crutchfield was elected as a Republican to the United States House of Representatives and served from March 4, 1873 to March 3, 1875. After serving in Congress, he returned to Tennessee and continued work in agriculture until his death in 1890. [Source: “Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1774 - Present,” available at https://bioguide.congress.gov/search/bio/C000961] Tennessee Delegation (This negotiation)
Joseph S. Fowler Visualize "(August 31, 1820 -- April 1, 1902) Joseph Smith Fowler was a(n) teacher, professor of mathematics at a college, lawyer, comptroller, and American politician. He was born in Steubenville, Jefferson County, Ohio and moved to Tennessee. Joseph studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1861. He was president of Howard Female College, Gallatin, Tennessee (1856 - 1861) and comptroller of Tennessee (1862-1865). Fowler was elected as a Unionist to the United States Senate (July 24, 1866 - March 3, 1871) and served as chairman on the Committee on Engrossed Bills (40th Congress). He was not reelected. [Source: 'Biographical Directory of the United States Congress 1774 - Present', available at https://bioguideretro.congress.gov/Home/MemberDetails?memIndex=F000324]" Tennessee Delegation (United States Fifteenth Amendment) , Tennessee Delegation (United States Fourteenth Amendment & The Civil Rights Act of 1866) , Tennessee Delegation (This negotiation)
Abraham E. Garrett Visualize (March 6, 1830 — February 14, 1907) Garrett was a politician, lawyer, and businessman. Abraham Ellison Garrett was born in Livingston, Tennessee in 1830. He attended Poplar Springs College, in Kentucky, where he studied law. He was admitted to the bar and practiced law in Livingston, Tennessee, and also worked in agriculture. During the Civil War, he served as a lieutenant colonel in the Union Army. After the war, he served as a delegate to the State constitutional convention in 1865, and as a member of the State House of Representatives from 1865 to 1866. Garrett was elected as a Democrat to the United States House of Representatives and served from March 4, 1871 to March 3, 1873. [Source: “Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1774 - Present,” available at https://bioguide.congress.gov/search/bio/G000079] Tennessee Delegation (This negotiation)
Edward I. Golladay Visualize (September 9, 1830 — July 11, 1897) Golladay was an American politician and lawyer. Edward Isaac Golladay was born in Lebanon, Tennessee in 1830. He graduated from the literary department of Cumberland University in 1848 and also from the law department of the same university in 1849. Golladay served in the State House of Representatives in 1857 and 1858, while practicing law in Lebanon. During the Civil War, he enlisted in the Confederate Army and attained the rank of colonel. Golladay was elected as a Democrat to the United States House of Representatives and served from March 4, 1871 to March 3, 1873. [Source: “Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1774 - Present,” available at https://bioguide.congress.gov/search/bio/G000270] Tennessee Delegation (This negotiation)
Horace H. Harrison Visualize (August 7, 1829 — December 20, 1885) Harrison was a court clerk, judge, lawyer, and politician. Horace Harrison Harrison was born in Lebanon, Tennessee in 1829. He was clerk of the county court, master of the chancery court, and register of deeds in McMinnville, Tennessee. After serving as the clerk of the State Senate in 1851 and 1852, Harrison studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1857. He served as judge on the State Supreme Court in 1867 and 1868. Harrison was elected as a Republican to the United States House of Representatives and served from March 4, 1873 to March 3, 1875. After serving in Congress, he returned to Tennessee and served in the State Legislature from 1880 to 1881. [Source: “Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1774 - Present,” available at https://bioguide.congress.gov/search/bio/H000271] Tennessee Delegation (This negotiation)
Isaac R. Hawkins Visualize "(May 16, 1818 -- August 12, 1880) Isaac Roberts Hawkins was a(n) farmer, lawyer, soldier, judge, public servant, and American politician. Hawkins was born close to Columbia, Maury County, Tennessee. He studied law and was admitted to the bar in in 1843. He was a delegate from Tennessee to the peace conference in Washington D. C., in an effort to prevent the impending war (1861), Judge of the circuit court (1862), commissioned by Governor Brownlow as one of the chancellors of Tennessee but declined (July 1865), and was a delegate to the Republican National Convention (1868). He served as a lieutenant in the Mexican War, entered in the Union Army as lieutenant colonel of the 7th Regiment, Tennessee Volunteer Calvary, was captured with his regiment and was imprisoned (1864 - August 1864), and was in command of the Cavalry force in western Kentucky until the end of the Civil War. Hawkins was elected as a Unionist to the 39th congress and as a Republican to the 40th and 41st Congresses (July 24, 1866 - March 3, 1871), where he served as chairmen on the Committee on Mileage (41st Congress). [Source: 'Biographical Directory of the United States Congress 1774 - present', available at https://bioguideretro.congress.gov/Home/MemberDetails?memIndex=H000370]" Tennessee Delegation (United States Fifteenth Amendment) , Tennessee Delegation (United States Fourteenth Amendment & The Civil Rights Act of 1866) , Tennessee Delegation (This negotiation)
Barbour Lewis Visualize (January 5, 1818 — July 15, 1893) Lewis was a lawyer, judge, and politician. Barbour Lewis was born in Alburg, Vermont in 1818 and moved to Tennessee after the Civil War in 1863. He graduated from Illinois College, in Jacksonville, Illinois, in 1846. He studied law in the law department of Harvard University and was admitted to the bar. During the Civil War, Lewis enlisted in the Union Army and served as a captain. He was elected as a Republican to the United States House of Representatives and served from March 4, 1873 to March 3, 1875. After serving in Congress, Lewis was appointed to the United States Land Office in Salt Lake City, Utah. He served in that capacity until 1879, when he retired to the Territory of Washington. There, he raised stock until his death in 1893. [Source: “Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1774 - Present,” available at https://bioguide.congress.gov/search/bio/L000271] Tennessee Delegation (This negotiation)
Horace Maynard Visualize "(August 30, 1814 -- May 3, 1882) Horace Maynard was a(n) teacher, lawyer, publican servant, minister, Postmaster General, and American politician. Maynard was born in Westboro, Worcester County, Massachusetts and moved to Tennessee. He studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1844. He was a presidential elector on the Whig ticket and Republican ticket in 1852 and 1864, attorney general of Tennessee (1863-1865), delegate to the Southern Loyalist Convention at Philadelphia (1866), unsuccessful Republican candidate for Governor of Tennessee (1874), Minister to Turkey (March 9, 1875 - May 1880), and was appointed Postmaster General in the Cabinet of President Hayes (June 2, 1880 - March 5, 1881). He was not elected as a Whig to the 33rd Congress in 1853. Maynard was elected as an American Party candidate, Opposition Party candidate, and Unionist in the 35th, 36th, and 37th Congresses respectively (March 4, 1857 - March 3, 1863). He was elected as a Unconditional Unionist to the 39th Congress and as a Republican to the 40th, 41st, 42nd, 43rd Congresses and was not reelected in 1874 (July 24, 1866 - March 3, 1875). During his time on Congress he served as chairmen on the Committee on Banking and Currency (43rd Congress). [Source: 'Biographical Directory of the United States Congress 1774 - Present', available at https://bioguideretro.congress.gov/Home/MemberDetails?memIndex=M000284]" Tennessee Delegation (United States Fifteenth Amendment) , Tennessee Delegation (The Road to Civil War) , Tennessee Delegation (United States Fourteenth Amendment & The Civil Rights Act of 1866) , Tennessee Delegation (This negotiation)
David A. Nunn Visualize "(July 26, 1833 -- September 11, 1918) David Alexander Nunn was a(n) lawyer, public servant, minister resident, secretary of state, collector of internal revenue, and American politician. He was born close to Brownsville, Haywood County, Tennessee. David studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1853. He served as a presidential elector on the Constitutional Union Ticket (1860), presidential elector on the Republican ticket (1864), member of the state house of representatives (1865 -1867), appointed by President Grant as Minister Resident to Ecuador (April 21, 1869 - November 2, 1869), secretary of state of Tennessee (1881 - 1885), and appointed Collector of internal revenue at Nashville, Tennessee (July 20,1897 - his resignation January 17, 1902). Nunn was elected as a Republican to the 40th Congress and 43rd Congress (March 4, 1867 - March 3, 1869 & March 4, 1873 - March 3, 1875). David was not elected as an independent Republican in 1868 or to the 1874 election. [Source: 'Biographical Directory of the United States Congress 1774 - Present', available at https://bioguideretro.congress.gov/Home/MemberDetails?memIndex=N000170]" Tennessee Delegation (United States Fifteenth Amendment) , Tennessee Delegation (This negotiation)
William F. Prosser Visualize A Republican from the Eleventh District, the fifty-five year old lawyer lived in North Yakima. Born in Pennsylvania in 1834, Prosser had been a teacher, surveyor and miner. He was a colonel in the Civil War. In 1886 he became auditor of Yakima county, and he was special land agent for the general land office for Washington and Oregon. Prosser served on the following committees: Military Affairs, chairman; Apportionment and Representation; Harbors, Rivers, Tidewaters and Navigable Streams; rules for Convention. (March 16, 1834 — September 23, 1911) Prosser was a teacher, businessman, and politician. William Farrand Prosser was born in Williamsport, Pennsylvania in 1834 and moved to Tennessee after the Civil War. While a child, Prosser received limited school but became educated enough to become a teacher. He studied law but never practiced. In 1854, Prosser moved to California and became a miner. During the Civil War, he enlisted in the Union Army and attained the rank of colonel. After the war, he settled in Nashville, Tennessee and became a farmer. Prosser served in the State House of Representatives (1867-1869). He was elected as a Republican to the United States House of Representatives an served from March 4, 1869 to March 3, 1871. After serving in Congress, Prosser worked as a publisher and was the director of the Tennessee, Endgefield and Kentucky Railroad. In 1879 he was appointed by President Hayes to the Interior Department for Oregon, Washington, and Idaho. He was a delegate to the first State constitutional convention of Washington. [Source: “Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1774 - Present,” available at https://bioguide.congress.gov/search/bio/P000550] Tennessee Delegation (This negotiation)
William J. Smith Visualize (September 24, 1823 — November 29, 1913) Smith was a printer, businessman, and politician. William Jay Smith was born in Birmingham, England and immigrated to the United States. After settling in Orange County, New York, he became a printer and moved to Tennessee in 1846. During the Civil War, Smith enlisted in the Union Army and served from 1861 to 1865. After the war, he served in the State House of Representatives (1865-1867) and the State Senate (1867-1869, 1885-1887). Smith was elected as a Republican to the United States House of Representatives and served from March 4, 1869 to March 3, 1871. After serving in Congress, he returned to Tennessee and worked in real estate and banking. [Source: “Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1774 - Present,” available at https://bioguide.congress.gov/search/bio/S000632] Tennessee Delegation (This negotiation)
William B. Stokes Visualize "(September 9, 1814 -- March 14, 1897) William Brickly Stokes was a(n) farmer, public servant, supervisor, soldier, lawyer, and American politician. Stokes was born in Chatham County, North Carolina and moved to Tennessee. He studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1867. He was a member of the State house of representatives (1849 - 1852), State senate (1855 and 1856), and was a supervisor of internal revenue for Tennessee. He entered the Union Army (May 15, 1862) as a major of Tennessee Volunteers, was promoted to colonel and then major general until he was honorably discharged (March 10 , 1865). He was elected as an Opposition Party to the 36th Congress (March 4, March 3, 1861). Stokes was also elected as an Unconditional Unionist to the 39th and as a Republican to the 40th and 41st Congresses (July 24, 1866 - March 3, 1871), was not elected to the 42nd Congress. [Source: 'Biographical Directory of the United States Congress 1774 - Present', available at https://bioguideretro.congress.gov/Home/MemberDetails?memIndex=S000950]" Tennessee Delegation (United States Fifteenth Amendment) , Tennessee Delegation (The Road to Civil War) , Tennessee Delegation (United States Fourteenth Amendment & The Civil Rights Act of 1866) , Tennessee Delegation (This negotiation)
Jacob M. Thornburgh Visualize (July 3, 1837 — September 19, 1890) Thornburgh was an American politician and lawyer. Jacob Montgomery Thornburgh was born in Jefferson County, Tennessee in 1837. He studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1861. He enlisted in the Union Army during the Civil War and served as a private and lieutenant colonel. After the war, he returned to Tennessee and was appointed attorney general of the third judicial circuit of Tennessee from 1866 to 1870. Thornburgh was elected as a Republican to the United States House of Representatives and served from March 4, 1873 to March 3, 1879. [Source: “Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1774 - Present,” available at https://bioguide.congress.gov/search/bio/T000239] Tennessee Delegation (This negotiation)
Lewis Tillman Visualize (August 18, 1816 — May 3, 1886) Tillman was a businessman, court clerk, editor, and politician. Lewis Tillman was born in Shelbyville, Tennessee in 1816. After attaining an education, he worked in agriculture. Tillman was clerk of the circuit court of Bedford County from 1852 to 1860, and served as a colonel of the State Militia before the Civil War. He then worked as an editor of a newspapers and acted as clerk of the chancery court from 1865 to 1869. Tillman was elected as a Republican to the United States House of Representatives and served from March 4, 1869 to March 3, 1871. [Source: “Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1774 - Present,” available at https://bioguide.congress.gov/search/bio/T000277] Tennessee Delegation (This negotiation)
William W. Vaughan Visualize (July 2, 1831 — August 19, 1878) Vaughan was a businessman, lawyer, and politician. William Wirt Vaughan was born in Wilson County, Tennessee in 1831. He graduated from Cumberland University in Lebanon, Tennessee. Vaughan studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1860. He practiced law in Brownsville, Tennessee until he was elected as a Democrat to the United States House of Representatives in 1870. He served in the House from March 4, 1871 to March 3, 1873. Vaughan was one of the primary people in the building of the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad and was its president until he died in 1878. [Source: “Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1774 - Present,” available at https://bioguide.congress.gov/search/bio/V000076] Tennessee Delegation (This negotiation)
Washington C. Whitthorne Visualize (April 19, 1825 — September 21, 1891) Whitthorne was an American politician and lawyer. Washington Curran Whitthorne was born in Farmington, Tennessee in 1825. He graduated from the University of Tennessee at Knoxville in 1843. After that, he studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1845. While practicing law in Columbia, Tennessee, Whitthorne also served as auditor’s clerk in 1848, as a member of the State House of Representatives, and as a member of the State Senate. During the Civil War, he enlisted in the Confederate Army and attained the rank of assistant adjutant general and adjutant general. Whitthorne was elected as a Democrat to the both the United States House of Representatives and the Senate. He served as a Representative from March 4, 1871 to March 3, 1883 and in the Senate from April 16, 1886 to March 3, 1891, after filling the vacancy occasioned by the resignation of Howell Jackson. [Source: “Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1774 - Present,” available at https://bioguide.congress.gov/search/bio/W000429] Tennessee Delegation (This negotiation)