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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—TennesseeWilliam Tecumsah AVERY
(1819-1880)
AVERY, William Tecumsah, a
Representative from Tennessee; born in Hardeman County, Tenn.,
November 11, 1819; attended the common schools and was graduated
from old Jackson College near Columbia, Maury County, Tenn.;
studied law; was admitted to the bar; moved to Memphis, Tenn., in
1840 and engaged in the practice of law; member of the State house
of representatives in 1843; elected as a Democrat to the
Thirty-fifth and Thirty-sixth Congresses (March 4, 1857-March 3,
1861); was not a candidate for renomination in 1860; during the
Civil War served as lieutenant colonel in the Confederate Army;
clerk of the criminal court of Shelby County 1870-1874; resumed the
practice of law in Memphis, Tenn.; accidentally drowned in Ten Mile
Bayou, Crittenden County, Ark., opposite Memphis, Tenn., May 22,
1880; interment in Elmwood Cemetery, Memphis, Tenn.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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