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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—TennesseeJohn RHEA
(1753-1832)
RHEA, John, a
Representative from Tennessee; born in the parish of Langhorn,
County Londonderry, Ireland, in 1753; immigrated to the United
States in 1769 with his parents, who settled in Philadelphia, Pa.;
moved to Piney Creek, Md., in 1771 and to eastern Tennessee in
1778; completed preparatory studies and was graduated from
Princeton College in 1780; member of the Patriot force in the
Battle of King’s Mountain in October 1780; clerk of the
Sullivan County Court in the proposed State of Franklin and
subsequently in North Carolina 1785-1790; member of the house of
commons of North Carolina; was a delegate to the State convention
that ratified the Federal Constitution in 1789; studied law; was
admitted to the bar in 1789; delegate to the constitutional
convention of Tennessee in 1796; attorney general of Greene County,
Tenn., in 1796; member of the State house of representatives in
1796 and 1797; elected as a Republican to the Eighth and to the
five succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1803-March 3, 1815); chairman,
Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads (Tenth through
Thirteenth Congresses), Committee on Pensions and Revolutionary
Claims (Fifteenth through Seventeenth Congresses); appointed United
States commissioner to treat with the Choctaw Nation in 1816;
elected to the Fifteenth, Sixteenth, and Seventeenth Congresses
(March 4, 1817-March 3, 1823); actively connected with higher
education in Tennessee; retired from active pursuits and resided on
the Rhea plantation near Blountville, Sullivan County, Tenn., where
he died May 27, 1832; interment in the Blountville Cemetery.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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