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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—TennesseeRobert DESHA
(1791-1849)
DESHA, Robert, (brother of
Joseph Desha), a Representative from Tennessee; born near Gallatin,
Sumner County, Tenn., January 14, 1791; attended the public
schools; engaged in the mercantile business at Gallatin; appointed
on March 12, 1812, a captain in the Twenty-fourth Regiment, United
States Infantry, in the War of 1812; also served as brevet major;
honorably discharged on June 15, 1815; elected as a Jacksonian to
the Twentieth and Twenty-first Congresses (March 4, 1827-March 3,
1831); declined to be a candidate for renomination in 1830 for the
Twenty-second Congress; moved to Mobile, Ala., and continued
mercantile pursuits until his death there February 6, 1849;
interment in Magnolia Cemetery.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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