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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—TennesseeWHITE, Hugh Lawson
(1773—1840)
Senate Years of Service:
1825-1840
Party:
Jacksonian; Anti-Jacksonian; Whig
WHITE, 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
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. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott and Co., 1856.
Atkins, Jonathan M. “The Presidential Candidacy of Hugh Lawson White in Tennessee, 1832-1836.” Journal of Southern History
58 (February 1992): 27-56.
Gresham, L. Paul. “Hugh Lawson White, Frontiersman, Lawyer, and Judge.” East Tennessee Historical Society’s Publications
19 (1947): 3-24.
___. “Hugh Lawson White as a Tennessee Politician and Banker, 1807-1827.” East Tennessee Historical Society’s Publications
18 (1946): 25-46.
___. “The Public Career of Hugh Lawson White.” Tennessee Historical Quarterly
3 (December 1944): 291-318.
___. “The Public Career of Hugh Lawson White.” Ph.D. dissertation, Vanderbilt University, 1944.
McKellar, Kenneth. “Hugh Lawson White,” in Tennessee Senators as seen by one of their Successors
. Kingsport, Tenn.: Southern Publishers, Inc., 1942, 159-183.
Ratner, Lorman A. “Hugh Lawson White: The Tennessee ‘Brutus’.” In Andrew Jackson and His Tennessee Lieutenants: A Study in Political Culture
, 73-82. Westport, CT: Greenwood House, 1997.
Scott, Nancy N., ed. A Memoir of Hugh Lawson White, Judge of the Supreme Court of Tennessee, Member of the Senate of the United States
. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott & Co., 1856.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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