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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—North Carolina / TennesseeJohn SEVIER
(1745-1815)
SEVIER, John, a
Representative from North Carolina and Tennessee; born near
Harrisonburg, Rockingham County, Va., September 23, 1745; attended
the common schools and the academy at Fredericksburg, Va.; moved
with his brothers to Watauga County, N.C., in 1773 and settled on
the Holston River, N.C. (now Tennessee); county clerk and district
judge 1777-1780; elected governor of “the proclaimed”
State of Franklin in March 1785 and served for three years; elected
as a Pro-Administration candidate from North Carolina to the First
Congress and served from June 16, 1790, until March 3, 1791;
appointed in 1791 as brigadier general of militia for the
Washington district of the territory south of the Ohio; upon the
admission of Tennessee as a state into the Union, was chosen
governor and served from 1796 to 1801, and again from 1803 to 1809;
appointed in 1798 as brigadier general of the Provisional Army;
served one term in the state senate 1810-1811; elected as a
Republican from Tennessee to the Twelfth, Thirteenth, and
Fourteenth Congresses and served from March 4, 1811, until his
death; appointed in 1815 as one of the commissioners to determine
the boundary between Georgia and the Creek territory in Alabama and
served until his death, near Fort Decatur, Ala., September 24,
1815; interment at Fort Decatur, Ala.; reinterred in Knoxville,
Tenn., in 1889.
Bibliography
Driver, Carl S. “John Sevier, A Pioneer of the Old
Southwest.” Ph.D. diss., Vanderbilt University, 1929.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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