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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—TennesseeLeonidas Campbell HOUK
(1836-1891)
HOUK, Leonidas Campbell,
(father of John Chiles Houk), a Representative from Tennessee; born
near Boyds Creek, Sevier County, Tenn., June 8, 1836; attended the
common schools less than three months; learned the trade of
cabinet-making; studied law; was admitted to the bar October 13,
1859, and practiced; enlisted in the Union Army as a private August
9, 1861, and served with the Tennessee Volunteer Infantry until his
resignation on account of ill health April 23, 1863; presidential
elector on the Republican ticket in 1864; member of the State
constitutional convention in 1865; judge of the circuit court of
Tennessee 1866-1870; moved to Knoxville and resumed the practice of
law; delegate to the Republican National Conventions in 1868, 1880,
1884, and 1888; member of the State house of representatives
1873-1875; elected as a Republican to the Forty-sixth and to the
six succeeding Congresses and served from March 4, 1879, until his
death in Knoxville, Tenn., May 25, 1891; chairman, Committee on War
Claims (Forty-seventh Congress); interment in the Old Gray
Cemetery.
Bibliography
Gentry, Amos L. “The Public Career of Leonidas Campbell
Houk.” Master’s thesis, University of Tennessee,
1939.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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