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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—TennesseeThomas Amos Rogers NELSON
(1812-1873)
NELSON, Thomas Amos
Rogers, a Representative from Tennessee; born in Kingston,
Roane County, Tenn., March 19, 1812; completed preparatory studies
and was graduated from East Tennessee College in 1828; studied law;
was admitted to the bar in 1832 and commenced practice in
Washington County, Tenn.; served two terms as attorney general of
the first judicial circuit; appointed commissioner (diplomatic) to
China March 6, 1851, and resigned July 2, 1851; elected as an
Opposition Party candidate to the Thirty-sixth Congress (March 4,
1859-March 3, 1861); reelected as an Unionist to the Thirty-seventh
Congress, and while en route to Washington to take his seat, during
the Civil War, was arrested by Confederate scouts, conveyed to
Richmond as a prisoner, paroled, and allowed to return to his home;
upon the arrival of the Union Army in East Tennessee in 1863 he
moved to Knoxville; delegate to the Union National Convention at
Philadelphia in 1866 and to the Democratic National Convention in
1868; one of the counsel who defended President Andrew Johnson in
his impeachment trial in 1868; elected judge of the state supreme
court in 1870 and served until his resignation in 1871; died in
Knoxville, Tenn., August 24, 1873; interment in Gray Cemetery.
Bibliography
Alexander, Thomas Benjamin. Thomas A.R. Nelson of East
Tennessee. Nashville: Tennessee Historical Commission,
1956.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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