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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—TennesseeHugh Lawson WHITE
(1773-1840)
Senate Years of Service:
1825-1840Party: Jacksonian;
Anti-Jacksonian; WhigWHITE, Hugh Lawson, a
Senator from Tennessee; born in Iredell County, N.C., October 30,
1773; moved with his parents in 1785 to that part of North Carolina
which now is Knox County, Tenn.; participated in an expedition
against the Cherokees around 1793; pursued classical studies in
Philadelphia, Pa., and studied law in Lancaster, Pa.; admitted to
the bar in 1796 and commenced practice in Knoxville, Tenn.; judge
of the State superior court 1801-1807; member, State senate
1807-1809; appointed United States district attorney in 1808; judge
of the State supreme court 1809-1815; president of the State bank;
member, State senate 1817-1825; elected in 1825 as a Jacksonian to
the United States Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the
resignation of Andrew Jackson; reelected in 1829 and then in 1835
as an Anti-Jacksonian (later Whig) and served from October 28,
1825, to January 13, 1840, when he resigned because he could not
conscientiously obey the instructions of his constituents; served
as President pro tempore of the Senate during the Twenty-second and
Twenty-third Congresses; chairman, Committee on Indian Affairs
(Twentieth through Twenty-sixth Congresses); died in Knoxville,
Tenn., April 10, 1840; interment in First Presbyterian Church
Cemetery.
Bibliography
American National Biography; Dictionary of American
Biography; Gresham, L. Paul. “The Public Career of Hugh
Lawson White.” Ph.D. dissertation, Vanderbilt University,
1943; Scott, Nancy, ed. A Memoir of Hugh Lawson White.
Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott and Co., 1856.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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