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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—TennesseeFelix Kirk ZOLLICOFFER
(1812-1862)
ZOLLICOFFER, Felix Kirk, a
Representative from Tennessee; born in Bigbyville, Maury County,
Tenn., May 19, 1812; attended the “old field” schools
and Jackson College, Columbia, Tenn.; became a printer; engaged in
newspaper work in Paris, Tenn., 1828-1830, Knoxville, Tenn., in
1831 and 1832, and Huntsville, Ala., 1835-1843; elected State
printer of Tennessee in 1835; served as a lieutenant in the war
against the Seminoles in Florida in 1836; owner and editor of the
Columbia Observer and the Southern Agriculturist in 1837; editor of
the Republican Banner, the State organ of the Whig Party, in 1843;
comptroller of the State treasury 1845-1849; served in the State
senate 1849-1852; delegate to the Whig National Convention in 1852;
elected as a Whig to the Thirty-third Congress and reelected as a
candidate of the American Party to the Thirty-fourth and
Thirty-fifth Congresses (March 4, 1853-March 3, 1859); declined to
be a candidate for renomination in 1858; member of the peace
convention of 1861 held in Washington, D.C., in an effort to devise
means to prevent the impending war; during the Civil War served in
the Confederate Army as brigadier general; died from wounds
received near Mill Springs, Ky., January 19, 1862; interment in the
Old City Cemetery, Nashville, Tenn.
Bibliography
Parks, Edd. Winfield. “Zollicoffer: Southern Whig.”
Tennessee Historical Quarterly 11 (December 1952): 346-55;
Stamper, James C. “Felix K. Zollicoffer: Tennessee Editor and
Politician.” Tennessee Historical Quarterly 28 (Winter
1969): 356-76.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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