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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—TennesseeWilliam Montgomery CHURCHWELL
(1826-1862)
CHURCHWELL, William
Montgomery, a Representative from Tennessee; born near
Knoxville, Knox County, Tenn., February 20, 1826; attended private
schools and Emory and Henry College, Emory, Va., 1840-1843; studied
law; was admitted to the bar and commenced practice in Knoxville;
one of the judges for Knox County; elected as a Democrat to the
Thirty-second and Thirty-third Congresses (March 4, 1851-March 3,
1855); chairman, Committee on Revolutionary Pensions (Thirty-third
Congress); provost marshal for the district of east Tennessee;
during the administration of President Buchanan was sent on a
secret mission to Mexico; during the Civil War served in the
Confederate Army as colonel of the Fourth Tennessee Regiment; died
in Knoxville, Tenn., August 18, 1862; interment in the Old Gray
Cemetery.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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