Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
John Sevier (September 23, 1745 – September 24, 1815) was an American soldier, frontiersman, and politician, and one of the founding fathers of the State of Tennessee.A member of the Democratic-Republican Party, he played a leading role in Tennessee's pre-statehood period, both militarily and politically, and he was elected the state's first governor in 1796.
The governor of Tennessee is the head of government of the U.S. state of Tennessee.. Tennessee has had 50 governors, including the incumbent, Bill Lee. [1] Seven governors (John Sevier, William Carroll, Andrew Johnson, Robert Love Taylor, Gordon Browning, Frank G. Clement, and Buford Ellington) have served non-consecutive terms.
The 1796 Tennessee gubernatorial election was held between 1 and 2 March 1796 in order to elect the first governor of Tennessee. Democratic-Republican nominee and former member of the U.S. House of Representatives from North Carolina's 5th district John Sevier ran unopposed and thus won the election, but the exact election results are unknown. [1]
The governor is the only official in the Tennessee state government who is directly elected by the voters of the entire state. The current governor is Bill Lee, a member of the Republican Party, who took office on January 19, 2019, as the state's 50th governor. He was re-elected to serve a second term in 2022.
William Blount (April 6, 1749 – March 21, 1800) [1] was an American politician, landowner and Founding Father who was one of the signers of the Constitution of the United States. He was a member of the North Carolina delegation at the Constitutional Convention of 1787 and led the efforts for North Carolina to ratify the Constitution in 1789 ...
The 1845 Tennessee gubernatorial election was held on August 7, 1845, to elect the Governor of Tennessee. Democratic nominee and former member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Tennessee's 6th district Aaron V. Brown defeated Whig nominee and former United States Senator from Tennessee Ephraim H. Foster. [1]
May 6, 1971. Marble Springs, also known as the Gov. John Sevier Home, is a state historic site in south Knox County, Tennessee, in the southeastern United States. The site was the home of John Sevier (1745–1815)—a Revolutionary War and frontier militia commander and later the first governor of Tennessee—from 1790 until his death in 1815 ...
State of Franklin. The State of Franklin (also the Free Republic of Franklin, Lost State of Franklin, or the State of Frankland) [a] was an unrecognized proposed state located in present-day East Tennessee, in the United States. Franklin was created in 1784 from part of the territory west of the Appalachian Mountains that had been offered by ...