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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—TennesseeWashington Curran WHITTHORNE
(1825-1891)
Senate Years of Service:
1886-1887Party: DemocratWHITTHORNE, Washington
Curran, a Representative and a Senator from Tennessee; born
near Farmington, Marshall County, Tenn., April 19, 1825; attended
the common schools, an academy in Arrington, Williamson County, and
Campbell Academy, Lebanon, Tenn.; graduated from the University of
Tennessee at Knoxville in 1843; studied law and was admitted to the
bar in 1845 at Columbia, Maury County, Tenn.; served as
auditor’s clerk and in other local government positions until
1848, when he commenced the practice of law in Columbia, Tenn.;
member, State senate 1855-1858; member, State house of
representatives, and speaker in 1859; presidential elector on the
Breckinridge and Lane ticket in 1860; during the Civil War served
as assistant adjutant general in the provisional army of Tennessee
in 1861 and in the Confederate service as adjutant general of the
State 1861-1865; his political disabilities were removed by act of
Congress in 1870; elected as a Democrat to the Forty-second and to
the five succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1871-March 3, 1883);
chairman, Committee on Naval Affairs (Forty-fourth through
Forty-sixth Congresses); appointed and subsequently elected as a
Democrat to the United States Senate to fill the vacancy caused by
the resignation of Howell E. Jackson and served from April 16,
1886, to March 3, 1887; elected to the Fiftieth and Fifty-first
Congresses (March 4, 1887-March 3, 1891); died in Columbia, Tenn.,
September 21, 1891; interment in Rose Hill Cemetery.
Bibliography
McKellar, Kenneth. “Washington Curran Whitthorne,” in
Tennessee Senators as Seen by One of Their Successors.
Kingsport, Tenn.: Southern Publishers, Inc., 1942, 416-425.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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