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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—TennesseeJohn DeWitt Clinton ATKINS
(1825-1908)
ATKINS, John DeWitt
Clinton, a Representative from Tennessee; born near
Manly’s Chapel, Henry County, Tenn., June 4, 1825; attended a
private school in Paris, Tenn., and was graduated from the East
Tennessee University at Knoxville in 1846; studied law; was
admitted to the bar but did not practice; engaged in agricultural
pursuits; member of the State house of representatives 1849-1851;
served in the State senate 1855-1857; elected as a Democrat to the
Thirty-fifth Congress (March 4, 1857-March 3, 1859); unsuccessful
candidate for reelection in 1858 to the Thirty-sixth Congress;
during the Civil War served as lieutenant colonel of the Fifth
Tennessee Regiment in the Confederate Army in 1861; elected to the
Confederate Provisional Congress in August and November 1861 and in
November 1863; elected as a Democrat to the Forty-third and to the
four succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1873-March 3, 1883); chairman,
Committee on Appropriations (Forty-fifth and Forty-sixth
Congresses); was not a candidate for renomination in 1882; engaged
in agricultural pursuits near Paris, Henry County, Tenn.; appointed
United States Commissioner of Indian Affairs by President Cleveland
on March 21, 1885, and served until June 13, 1888, when he
resigned; was an unsuccessful candidate for the Democratic
nomination for United States Senator in 1888; again engaged in
agricultural pursuits; retired from active pursuits in 1898 and
moved to Paris, Tenn., where he lived in retirement until his death
on June 2, 1908; interment in the City Cemetery.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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