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HUGH LAWSON WHITE (1773-1840)

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Originally appearing in Volume V28, Page 600 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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HUGH See also:LAWSON See also: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 See also: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 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 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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