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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—TennesseeRobert WEAKLEY
(1764-1845)
WEAKLEY, Robert, a
Representative from Tennessee; born in Halifax County, Va., July
20, 1764; attended Princeton (N.J.) schools; joined the
Revolutionary Army at the age of sixteen and served until the close
of the Revolutionary War; moved in 1785 to that part of North
Carolina which later became Tennessee and engaged in agricultural
pursuits; member of the North Carolina convention that ratified the
Constitution of the United States in 1789; member of the first
State house of representatives in 1796; elected as a Republican to
the Eleventh Congress (March 4, 1809-March 3, 1811); appointed
United States commissioner to treat with the Chickasaw Indians in
1819; member of the State senate in 1823 and 1824, serving as
president in 1823; member of the State constitutional convention in
1834; died near Nashville, Tenn., February 4, 1845; interment in
the family vault at “Lockland,” on his estate in the
suburbs of Nashville.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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