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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—TennesseeJohn BLAIR
(1790-1863)
BLAIR, John, a
Representative from Tennessee; born at Blairs Mill, near
Jonesborough (now Jonesboro), Washington County, Tenn., September
13, 1790; attended Martain Academy, and was graduated from
Washington (Tenn.) College in 1809; studied law; was admitted to
the bar in 1813 and practiced; member of the State house of
representatives 1815-1817; served in the State senate 1817-1821;
elected as a Jacksonian Republican to the Eighteenth Congress;
reelected as a Jacksonian to the Nineteenth through Twenty-third
Congresses (March 4, 1823-March 3, 1835); chairman, Committee on
Expenditures in the Department of State (Twentieth Congress);
unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1834 to the Twenty-fourth
Congress; retired to private life; again a member of the State
house of representatives, in 1849 and 1850; resumed the practice of
law; died in Jonesboro, Tenn., July 9, 1863; interment in the Old
Cemetery.
Bibliography
Bloomer, Faye T. “The Legislative Career of John
Blair.” Master’s thesis, East Tennessee State
University, 1956.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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