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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—TennesseeBLAIR, John
(1790—1863)
BLAIR, John, a Representative from Tennessee; born at Blairs Mill, near Jonesborough (now Jonesboro), Washington County, Tenn., September 13, 1790; attended Martain Academy, and was graduated from Washington (Tenn.) College in 1809; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1813 and practiced; member of the State house of representatives 1815-1817; served in the State senate 1817-1821; elected as a Jacksonian Republican to the Eighteenth Congress; reelected as a Jacksonian to the Nineteenth through Twenty-third Congresses (March 4, 1823-March 3, 1835); chairman, Committee on Expenditures in the Department of State (Twentieth Congress); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1834 to the Twenty-fourth Congress; retired to private life; again a member of the State house of representatives, in 1849 and 1850; resumed the practice of law; died in Jonesboro, Tenn., July 9, 1863; interment in the Old Cemetery.
Bibliography
Bloomer, Faye T. “The Legislative Career of John Blair.” Master’s thesis, East Tennessee State University, 1956.
Blair, John. Speech of John Blair of Tennessee on the national road bill: delivered in the House of Representatives, March 13, 1830
. Washington: Duff Green, 1830.
———. To the freemen of the counties of Carter, Sullivan, Washington, Green, and Hawkins
. [Washington: N.p., 1833].
Bloomer, Faye T. “The Legislative Career of John Blair.” Master’s thesis, East Tennessee State University, 1956.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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