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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—TennesseeNewton CANNON
(1781-1841)
CANNON, Newton, a
Representative from Tennessee; born in Guilford County, N.C., May
22, 1781; attended the common schools; moved to Tennessee at an
early period and settled near Nashville, Williamson County; engaged
in agricultural pursuits; member of the State house of
representatives in 1811 and 1812; enlisted in the War of 1812 and
became colonel of a regiment of Tennessee Mounted Rifles; elected
as a Republican to the Thirteenth Congress to fill the vacancy
caused by the resignation of Felix Grundy; reelected to the
Fourteenth Congress and served from September 16, 1814, to March 3,
1817; chairman, Committee on Expenditures in the Post Office
Department (Fourteenth Congress); appointed by President Monroe a
commissioner to negotiate a treaty with the Chickasaw Indians in
1819; elected to the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Congresses (March 4,
1819-March 3, 1823); resumed agricultural pursuits; Governor of
Tennessee 1835-1839; died in Nashville, September 16, 1841;
interment in a cemetery on his estate near Allisona, Williamson
County, Tenn.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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