Biography
Representative from Tennessee; born in Montgomery County, Pa., birth date unknown; moved to Winchester, Tenn.; elected as a Jackson Republican to the Eighteenth Congress; and reelected as a Jacksonian candidate to the Nineteenth and to the three succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1823-March 3, 1833); chairman, Committee on Public Lands (Twentieth and Twenty-first Congresses); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1832; died in Winchester, Tenn.; death date unknown.Courtesy of Biographical Directory of the United States Congress
