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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—TennesseeLewis TILLMAN
(1816-1886)
TILLMAN, Lewis, (nephew of
Barclay Martin), a Representative from Tennessee; born near
Shelbyville, Bedford County, Tenn., August 18, 1816; attended the
common schools and pursued an academic course; served in the
Seminole War as a private; engaged in agricultural pursuits; clerk
of the circuit court of Bedford County 1852-1860; colonel of State
militia before the Civil War; editor of a newspaper in Shelbyville,
Tenn.; clerk and master of the chancery court 1865-1869; elected as
a Republican to the Forty-first Congress (March 4, 1869-March 3,
1871); was not a candidate for renomination in 1870; engaged in
agricultural pursuits; died in Shelbyville, Bedford County, Tenn.,
May 3, 1886; interment in Willow Mount Cemetery.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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