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TENNESSEE SENATORS TERRITORIAL GENERAL ASSEMBLY – 1794 ONE HUNDREDTH SIXTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY 2009 - 10 COMPILED BY DIANE BLACK LIBRARIAN TENNESSEE STATE LIBRARY AND ARCHIVES 403 7TH AVENUE NORTH NASHVILLE, TENNESSEE 37243-0312 [email protected] 1 TABLE OF CONTENTS Tennessee General Assembly − Senate Introduction – Territorial Assembly – One Hundredth Sixth Assembly ii - iii Territorial Assembly – One Hundredth Sixth Assembly 1 - 111 Notes 112 State Senators Political Parties 1887 – 2010 112 Sources 112 i Tennessee General Assembly − Senate Introduction – Territorial Assembly – One – Hundredth Sixth Assembly One-thousand seven hundred sixty-four (1,764) men and women have served in the Tennessee General Assembly as state senator. The last comprehensive list of Members of the Tennessee General Assembly was published in 1890, in the book Official and Political Manual of the State of Tennessee by Charles A. Miller. This Manual listed Members of the Tennessee General Assembly State Senators and Representatives from the Territorial General Assembly (August 5, 1794 – July 11, 1795) and the First General Assembly (March 28, 1796) thru Forty-seventh General Assembly which adjourned September 21, 1891 on pages 197 – 248. Listed is every Senator of the Tennessee General Assembly from the Territorial General Assembly (August 5, 1794 – July 11, 1795) to the One Hundredth –Sixth General Assembly which adjourned June 10, 2010. I have also found most members of the elusive Tenth General Assembly (1813 – 1815 because there was no printed or written Senate Journal found) in the book Messages of the Governors of Tennessee volume 1, 1796 – 1821 by Robert H. White. Listed at the beginning of each General Assembly is the number of that Assembly, the city where the Assembly was convened, dates convened for regular and special sessions, dates of adjournment of all sessions, the Speaker of the Senate, and the Chief Clerk if known. Also listed is the General Assembly if it was known by a special name (Territorial General Assembly − 1794, Confederate General Assembly – 1861and Brownlow/Reconstruction Legislature – 1865). Special notes are listed for the following General Assemblies: Thirty-Fourth General Assembly (Reconstruction Assembly 1865) – First Assembly to divide the counties by legislative districts and numbers Forty-Third General Assembly – (1883) – First Senate Assembly to have thirty-three members as comprises the present day Senate Forty-Fifth General Assembly – (1887) – First Assembly to list political party affiliations Sixty-Second General Assembly – (1921) – First General Assembly with ninety-five counties. James County abolished 1919, and the first woman elected to the Tennessee General Assembly – Senate (Anna L. Worley – Sullivan and Hawkins Counties) Eighty-Sixth General Assembly – (1969) – First African–Americans elected to the State Senate (Avon N. Williams, Jr. – Davidson County and James O. Patterson, Jr. – Shelby County) Ninety-Seventh General Assembly – (1991) – First African–American woman elected to the State Senate (Thelma Harper – Davidson County) ii If a state senator died in office or resigned I have tried to note this date and the date his or her replacement was elected or appointed to office. Despite extensive research the following counties Senators could not be found (Benton – 23rd; Carter – 10th; Cumberland – 37th; Dickson – 17th; Jackson – 10th; Lake – 40th; Obion – 40th; Overton – 10th; Union – 37th; and Van Buren – 29th) iii MEMBERS OF THE TENNESSEE GENERAL ASSEMBLY 1794 – PRESENT SENATE Territorial General Assembly – Knoxville, August 5, 1794 First Session convened – August 25, 1794 – Adjourned – September 30, 1794 Second Session convened – June 29, 1795 – Adjourned – July 11, 1795 David Wilson – Speaker of the Senate; Hopkins Lacey – Clerk Alexander Riley – Knox County John Braid – Knox County George Doherty – Jefferson County Samuel Weir – Jefferson County Joseph Hardin – Greene County Leroy Taylor – Washington County Griffin Rutherford – Washington County John Tipton – Washington County George Rutledge – Sullivan County William Cocke – Hawkins County Joseph McMinn – Hawkins County James White – Davidson County David Wilson – Sumner County James Ford – Tennessee County James Winchester – Sumner County First General Assembly – Knoxville, 1796 First Session convened – March 28, 1796 – Adjourned – April 23, 1796 Second Session convened – July 30, 1796 – Adjourned – August 9, 1796 James Winchester – Speaker of the Senate; Thomas A. Ramsey & George Roulstone – Clerks James Ford – Tennessee County James Winchester – Sumner County James White – Knox County George Doherty – Jefferson County Samuel Frazier – Greene County John Tipton – Washington County George Rutledge – Sullivan County Alexander Kelly – Blount County Joel Lewis – Davidson County Joseph McMinn – Hawkins County John Clack – Sevier County 1 Second General Assembly – Knoxville, 1797 First Session convened – September 18, 1797 – Adjourned - October 28, 1797 Second Session convened – December 3, 1798 – Adjourned – January 5, 1799 James White and William Blount – Speakers of the Senate; George Roulestone − Clerk James White – Knox County (resigned) (1st Session) William Blount – Knox County (2nd Session) John Tipton – Washington County Samuel Frazier – Greene County Joseph McMinn – Hawkins and Grainger Counties (1st Session) Joel Dyer – Hawkins County (2nd Session) James Roddye – Jefferson County Alexander Kelly – Blount County John Clack – Sevier County Thomas Hardeman – Davidson County (1st Session) James Robertson – Davidson County (2nd Session) Edward Douglass – Sumner County James Ford – Robertson and Montgomery Counties George Rutledge – Sullivan County Third General Assembly – Knoxville, 1799 First Session convened – September 21, 1799 – Adjourned October 26, 1799 No second session Alexander Outlaw – Speaker of the Senate; John Kennedy – Clerk Samuel Glass – Blount and Sevier Counties Alexander Outlaw – Cocke and Jefferson Counties David Deaderick – Carter and Washington Counties Joel Lewis – Davidson County Robert Weakley – Davidson County John Cocke, Sr. – Grainger County Samuel Frazier – Greene County George Maxwell – Hawkins County John Crawford – Knox County James Norfleet – Montgomery and Robertson Counties George Rutledge – Sullivan County Sampson Williams – Sumner County 2 Fourth General Assembly – Knoxville, 1801 First Session convened – September 21, 1801 – Adjourned – November 14, 1801 No second session James White – Speaker of the Senate; George Roulstone – Clerk John Wilkinson – Blount and Sevier Counties Alexander Outlaw – Cocke and Jefferson Counties Leroy Taylor – Carter and Washington Counties Robert Weakley – Davidson and Williamson Counties Major Lea – Grainger County John Gass – Greene County Joseph McMinn – Hawkins County James White – Knox County (1st Session) George Rutledge – Sullivan County Duncan Stewart – Montgomery and Robertson Counties George Smith – Sumner, Smith and Wilson Counties James Saunders – Wilson, Sumner and Smith Counties Fifth General Assembly – Knoxville, 1803 First Session convened – September 19, 1803 – Adjourned – November 8, 1803 Second Session – convened – July 23, 1804 – Adjourned – August 4, 1804 James White – Speaker of the Senate; James Trimble – Clerk John Gass – Greene County George Smith – Jackson, Sumner, Smith, and Wilson Counties James Maxwell – Williamson and Davidson Counties Robert Weakley – Williamson and Davidson Counties James White – Anderson, Knox and Roane Counties Nathaniel Taylor – Carter and Washington Counties Flayll Nichol – Blount and Sevier Counties George Rutledge – Sullivan and Sevier Counties John Finley Jack – Claiborne and Grainger Counties George Doherty – Jefferson and Cocke Counties Duncan Stewart – Montgomery and Robertson Counties Joseph McMinn – Hawkins County Sixth General Assembly – Knoxville, 1805 First Session convened – September 16, 1805 – Adjourned – November 4, 1805 Second Session convened – July 28, 1806 – September 13, 1806 Joseph McMinn – Speaker of the Senate; John N. Gamble − Clerk John Wilkinson – Blount and Sevier Counties George Doherty – Cocke and Jefferson Counties 3 Leroy Taylor – Carter and Washington Counties Abram P. Maury, Sr. – Davidson, Williamson and Rutherford Counties John F. Jack – Grainger and Claiborne Counties John Gass – Greene County Joseph McMinn – Hawkins County Robert Houston – Knox, Roane and Anderson Counties Duncan Stewart – Montgomery, Robertson, Dickson, and Stewart Counties James King – Sullivan County Edward Douglass – Sumner, Smith, Jackson, and Wilson Counties Sampson Williams – Smith, Sumner, Wilson, and Jackson Counties Seventh General Assembly – Met at Kingston, adjourned the first day September 21, 1807 – Regular session held in Knoxville, 1807 First Session convened – September 24, 1807 – Adjourned – December 4, 1807 Second Session convened – April 3, 1809 – Adjourned – April 22, 1809 Joseph McMinn – Speaker of the Senate; James M. Anderson – Clerk George Preston – Anderson, Bledsoe, Rhea, Roane, and part of Campbell Counties (1st Session) – died in office January 1808 William Brown – Anderson, Bledsoe, Rhea, Roane, and part of Campbell Counties (2nd Session) Robert Weakley – Davidson County John Russell – Greene County Major Lea – Claiborne and Grainger Counties George Doherty – Jefferson and Cocke Counties William Walton – Jackson and Smith Counties (1st Session); Smith, Jackson, Franklin, Overton, Warren and White Counties (2nd Session) Hugh L. White – Knox County Parry W. Humphreys – Robertson, Dickson, Montgomery,
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