 |
History and Government—Congressional Biographies—ArkansasAmbrose Hundley SEVIER
(1801-1848)
Senate Years of Service:
1836-1848Party: Jacksonian; DemocratSEVIER, Ambrose Hundley,
(cousin of Henry Wharton Conway), a Delegate and a Senator from
Arkansas; born in Greene County, Tenn., November 4, 1801; completed
preparatory studies; moved to Missouri in 1820 and to Little Rock,
Ark., in 1821; clerk of the Territorial house of representatives;
studied law; admitted to the bar in 1823 and practiced; member,
Territorial house of representatives 1823-1827, serving as speaker
in 1827; elected as a Delegate to the Twentieth Congress to fill
the vacancy caused by the death of Henry W. Conway; reelected to
the Twenty-first and to the three succeeding Congresses and served
from February 13, 1828, to June 15, 1836, when the Territory was
admitted as a State into the Union; elected as a Democrat to the
United States Senate in 1836; reelected in 1837 and 1843 and served
from September 18, 1836, until his resignation on March 15, 1848;
served as President pro tempore of the Senate during the
Twenty-ninth Congress; chairman, Committee on Indian Affairs
(Twenty-sixth and Twenty-ninth Congresses), Committee on Foreign
Relations (Twenty-ninth and Thirtieth Congresses); was appointed
Minister to Mexico to negotiate the treaty of peace between that
Republic and the United States 1848; died on his plantation near
Little Rock, Pulaski County, Ark., December 31, 1848; interment in
Mount Holly Cemetery, where the State erected a monument to his
memory.
Bibliography
Dictionary of American Biography; Walton, Brian.
“Ambrose Hundley Sevier in the United States Senate,
1836-1848.” Arkansas Historical Quarterly 32 (Spring
1973): 25-60.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
Related Links
|
24 X 7
Private Tutor
|
24 x 7 Tutor Availability |
|
|
Unlimited Online Tutoring |
|
|
1-on-1 Tutoring |
|
