See also:HUGH See also:LAWSON See also:- WHITE
- WHITE, ANDREW DICKSON (1832– )
- WHITE, GILBERT (1720–1793)
- WHITE, HENRY KIRKE (1785-1806)
- HUGH LAWSON WHITE (1773-1840)
- WHITE, JOSEPH BLANCO (1775-1841)
- WHITE, RICHARD GRANT (1822-1885)
- WHITE, ROBERT (1645-1704)
- WHITE, SIR GEORGE STUART (1835– )
- WHITE, SIR THOMAS (1492-1567)
- WHITE, SIR WILLIAM ARTHUR (1824--1891)
- WHITE, SIR WILLIAM HENRY (1845– )
- WHITE, THOMAS (1628-1698)
- WHITE, THOMAS (c. 1550-1624)
WHITE (1773-1840)
, See also:American statesman, was See also:born in Iredell See also:county, See also:North Carolina, on the 30th of See also:October 1773
.
In 1787 he crossed the mountains into See also:East See also:Tennessee (then a See also:part of North Carolina) with his See also:father See also:- JAMES
- JAMES (Gr. 'IlrKw,l3or, the Heb. Ya`akob or Jacob)
- JAMES (JAMES FRANCIS EDWARD STUART) (1688-1766)
- JAMES, 2ND EARL OF DOUGLAS AND MAR(c. 1358–1388)
- JAMES, DAVID (1839-1893)
- JAMES, EPISTLE OF
- JAMES, GEORGE PAYNE RAINSFOP
- JAMES, HENRY (1843— )
- JAMES, JOHN ANGELL (1785-1859)
- JAMES, THOMAS (c. 1573–1629)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (1842–1910)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (d. 1827)
James See also:- WHITE
- WHITE, ANDREW DICKSON (1832– )
- WHITE, GILBERT (1720–1793)
- WHITE, HENRY KIRKE (1785-1806)
- WHITE, HUGH LAWSON (1773-1840)
- WHITE, JOSEPH BLANCO (1775-1841)
- WHITE, RICHARD GRANT (1822-1885)
- WHITE, ROBERT (1645-1704)
- WHITE, SIR GEORGE STUART (1835– )
- WHITE, SIR THOMAS (1492-1567)
- WHITE, SIR WILLIAM ARTHUR (1824--1891)
- WHITE, SIR WILLIAM HENRY (1845– )
- WHITE, THOMAS (1628-1698)
- WHITE, THOMAS (c. 1550-1624)
White (1737-1815), who was subsequently prominent in the See also:early See also:history of Tennessee
.
See also:Hugh became in 1790 secretary to See also:Governor See also:- WILLIAM
- WILLIAM (1143-1214)
- WILLIAM (1227-1256)
- WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
- WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
- WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
- WILLIAM, 13TH
William See also:Blount, and in 1792-1793 served under See also:John See also:Sevier against the See also:Creek and See also:Cherokee See also:Indians, and in the See also:battle of Etowah (See also:December 1793), according to the accepted tradition, killed with his own See also:hand the Cherokee See also:chief See also:Kingfisher
.
He studied in See also:Philadelphia and in 1796 he was admitted to the See also:bar at See also:Knoxville
.
He was a See also:judge of the See also:Superior See also:Court of Tennessee in 1801-1807, a See also:state senator in 1807-1809, and in 1809-1815 was judge of the newly organized Supreme Court of Errors and Appeals of the state
.
From 1812 to 1827 he was See also:president of the State See also:Bank of Tennessee at Knoxville, and managed it so well that for several years during this See also:period it was the only western bank that in the trying period during and after the See also:War of 1812 did not suspend specie payments
.
In 1821-1824 he was a member of the See also:Spanish Claims See also:Commission, and in 1825 succeeded See also:Andrew See also:Jackson in the See also:United States See also:Senate, serving until 184o and being president See also:pro tem. in 1832-1834
.
In the Senate he opposed See also:internal improvements by the Federal See also:government and the recharter of the United States Bank, favoured a protective See also:tariff and Jackson's coercive policy in regard to See also:nullification, and in See also:general supported the See also:measures of President Jackson, though his opposition to the Tatter's indiscriminate appointments caused a coolness between himself and Jackson, which was increased by White's refusal to See also:vote to expunge the resolutions of a former Senate censuring the president
.
In 1830, as chairman of the See also:Committee on See also:Indian Affairs, he secured the passage of a See also:bill looking to the removal of the Indians to lands See also:west of the See also:Mississippi
.
He was opposed to See also:Van Buren, Jackson's See also:candidate for the See also:presidency in 1836, was himself nominated in several states as an See also:independent candidate, and received the twenty-six electoral votes of Tennessee and See also:Georgia, though President Jackson made strong efforts to defeat him in the former state
.
About 1838 he became a Whig in politics, and when the Democratic legislature of Tennessee instructed him to vote for Van Buren's sub-See also:treasury See also:- SCHEME (Lat. schema, Gr. oxfjya, figure, form, from the root axe, seen in exeiv, to have, hold, to be of such shape, form, &c.)
scheme he objected and resigned (See also:Jan
.
1840)
.
His strict principles and his conservatism won for him the See also:sobriquet of " The See also:Cato of the United States Senate." He died at Knoxville on the loth of See also:April r84o
.
See See also:Nancy N
.
See also:Scott (ed.), A Memoir of Hugh See also:Lawson White (Philadelphia, 1856)
.
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