Lewis was born on Aug 18 1774 grew up near Charlottesville VA on locust hill with his parents William and Lucy Meriwether. Lewis´s father died while serving in the continental army in 1779 so Lewis´s mother married John marks then relocated to georgia where he spent 7 years there and developed a love for the wilderness. In 1801 near Ivy Virginia Lewis was asked by President Thomas Jefferson to be his personal secretary he shaped our country 's past he explored the west of america and made contact with Native americans he died on October 11 1809 he killed himself. Lewis was raised by Lucy meriwether and John marks (William Meriwether dies while serving the continental army) Lewis went to Washington and lee university until the age
During his time in Columbia, Matthews was very active in the Democratic politics. He returned to Cincinnati where he became a large supporter of the antislavery principles, and was elected as a judge of the Ohio Court of Common Pleas. Matthews was elected a seat in the senate in 1855-1857. The years leading up to the Civil War he was a U.S. attorney for the southern District of Ohio. His major accomplishment during the war was a provost marshal of Nashville and a brigade commander at Lookout Mountain and Chickamauga.
Born into complete poverty, he rose to become a wunderkind scholar, a Civil War hero, and a renowned and admired congressman. Nominated for president against his will, he engaged in a fierce battle with the corrupt
He had studied law before he move to Alabama but stopped to pursue his work on his plantation. He became a lawyer and was a huge advocate of State’s Rights. He was a supporter of Van Buren in the presidential election of 1840. In 1843 he ran for the state senate and won by a narrow margin. The year after that, he ran for Congress and was elected over Daniel Watrous.
He was a founding member of the state, and also became a senator for the state. He would later have a county in Tennessee named after
Lewis was born in Virginia on a plantation that his family owned. When the Whiskey Rebellion of 1794 broke out, George Washington called for volunteers to join an army to put a stop to the rebellion; Lewis was on of the first to enlist. Through out his military carrier he was always moving around to different states. He became very familiar with America. Upon Thomas Jefferson’s election in 1801 Meriwether Lewis was appointed to be the Presidents secretary because of his “knowledge of the western country” and his ability to “aid in private concerns of the household.”
The Cherokee people had lived in Georgia before the Americans for thousands of years. They were established and organized long before the colonist set
He helped out a lot during the war. Mr. Calhoun also was a part of many things in S.C and U.S. He fought to help troops and help their troops from congress. But back to Mr. Calhoun being a politician, he began his political career in 1810 that was when he first was elected to congress. He stayed until 1825 before he became vice president of the United States.
Andrew Jackson during his time was considered a very patriotic politician he hated the rich, he hated the Indian, and loved the idea of slavery. It has been said that he grew up not educated and had a bad up bring but still managed to get to a high political suture. Jackson at one point was general and had a very decorated portfolio, which made sense he would become president, Andrew was most well know for “The Battle of New Orleans” where Andrew Jackson, prevented the British Army and General Edward Pakenham, from seizing New Orleans nearing the end of that war.
His participation within this war showed his military ability and attracted the attention of General Andrew Jackson. He eventually became a Jacksonian politician. He was wounded at horseshoe bend, and then become governor of Tennessee in 1827. He soon resigned in 1829 after a failed marriage. He had spent a
Early in the 19th century, while the rapidly-growing United States expanded further into the South, white settlers faced what they considered an obstacle. This area was home to the Cherokee, Creek, Choctaw, Chicasaw and Seminole groups. These Indian nations, in the view of the settlers and many other white Americans, were in the way of progress. Eager for land so they could raise cotton, the settlers pressured the federal government to take or steal Indian territory. Andrew Jackson, from Tennessee, was a forceful leader in the Indian removal.
In 1788, he went to the western district of North Carolina, soon to become the state of Tennessee, as a prosecuting attorney. He was elected the first representative of Tennessee in the U.S. House of Representatives in 1796, but served only until March 4,
Eugene Talmadge was born in Forsyth, Georgia on September 23, 1884. He was the 67th governor in Georgia. He was a democratic politician who served four years in his first term He from 1933-1937. He was elected as governor four different times. His third time being elected he was in office for two years.
He became a rancher and a cowboy in the Dakota Territory. When he join in the Spanish-American War, he was a leader to a group of men called the Rough Riders. After the war, he was praised for being a war hero and was given nominated for Medal of Honor. He was soon elected as governor for New York in 1898.His party though, wanted to quiet him, so the party bosses got him on a McKinley ticket to a thankless post of Vice President. After that, McKinley was assassinated, making Theodore Roosevelt the youngest president to take
Born into a non-aristocratic poor family, somewhere in the Carolina’s on March 14, 1767, was a man named Andrew Jackson. Jackson, also called “Old Hickory” was a very bold proactive man in American history. From being a military hero and founding the democratic party to enacting the trail of tears and dismantling the of the Bank of the United States, the man and his legacy are a prominent topic for scholarly debate. Some believe he was a great president and some believe he was the worse president. But if you look at it from a moral perceptive or in the eyes of a foreigner, Jackson’s legacy was far more villainous than heroic.
