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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—TennesseeAlfred Osborn Pope NICHOLSON
(1808-1876)
Senate Years of Service:
1840-1842; 1859-1861Party: Democrat; DemocratNICHOLSON, Alfred Osborn
Pope, a Senator from Tennessee; born near Franklin,
Williamson County, Tenn., August 31, 1808; attended the rural
schools; graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel
Hill in 1827; studied law; admitted to the bar in 1831 and
commenced practice in Columbia, Tenn.; edited the Western Mercury
in Columbia 1832-1835; member, State house of representatives
1833-1839; appointed as a Democrat to the United States Senate to
fill the vacancy caused by the death of Felix Grundy and served
from December 25, 1840, to February 7, 1842; member, State senate
1843-1845; moved to Nashville, Tenn., and edited the Nashville
Union 1844-1846; a director and subsequently president of the Bank
of Tennessee in 1846 and 1847; declined an appointment to the
Cabinet of President Franklin Pierce in 1853; edited the Washington
Union 1853-1856; public printer of the United States House of
Representatives; again elected to the United States Senate and
served from March 4, 1859, until March 3, 1861, when he withdrew;
expelled from the Senate on July 11, 1861, for support of the
rebellion; chairman, Committee on Revolutionary Claims
(Thirty-sixth Congress); chief justice of the supreme court of
Tennessee 1870-1876; died in Columbia, Maury County, Tenn., March
23, 1876; interment in Rose Hill Cemetery.
Bibliography
Dictionary of American Biography; McKellar, Kenneth.
“Alfred Osborne Pope Nicholson,” in Tennessee
Senators as Seen by One of Their Successors. Kingsport, Tenn.:
Southern Publishers, Inc., 1942, 212-221; Caruthers, Robert Looney,
and Alfred Osborn Pope Nicholson, comps. A Compilation of the
Statutes of Tennessee, of a General and Permanent Nature, from the
Commencement of the Government to the Present Time. Nashville:
J. Smith, 1836.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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