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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—Louisiana / TennesseeWilliam Charles Cole CLAIBORNE
(1775-1817)
Senate Years of Service:
1817-1817Party: Democratic
RepublicanCLAIBORNE, William Charles
Cole, (brother of Nathaniel Herbert Claiborne, nephew of
Thomas Claiborne [1749-1812], uncle of John Francis Hamtramck
Claiborne, granduncle of James Robert Claiborne, and
great-great-great granduncle of Corinne Claiborne Boggs), a
Representative from Tennessee and a Senator from Louisiana; born in
Sussex County, Va., in 1775; moved in early youth to New York City;
studied law in Richmond, Va.; admitted to the bar and commenced
practice in Sullivan County, Tenn.; delegate to the State
constitutional convention from Sullivan County in 1796; appointed
judge of the superior court in 1796; elected as a Republican from
Tennessee to the Fifth and Sixth Congresses, and served from
November 23, 1797, to March 3, 1801, in spite of the fact that he
was still initially under the constitutional age requirement of
twenty-five years; appointed Governor of the Territory of
Mississippi in 1801; appointed in October 1803 one of the
commissioners to take possession of Louisiana when purchased from
France and served as Governor of the Territory of Orleans
1804-1812; Governor of Louisiana 1812-1816; elected as a Democratic
Republican from Louisiana to the United States Senate and served
from March 4, 1817, until his death, before the assembling of
Congress, in New Orleans, La., November 23, 1817; interment in
Basin St. Louis Cemetery; reinterment in Metairie Cemetery.
Bibliography
Dictionary of American Biography; Hatfield, Joseph T.
William Claiborne: Jeffersonian Centurion in the American
Southwest. Lafayette: University of Southwest Louisiana Press,
1976; Winters, John D. ‘William C.C. Claiborne: Profile of a
Democrat.’ Louisiana History 10 (Summer 1969):
189-210.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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