Andrew Jackson Caldwell

Andrew Jackson Caldwell, 1886

Andrew Jackson Caldwell (born July 22, 1837 in Montevallo , Shelby County , Alabama , †  November 22, 1906 in Nashville , Tennessee ) was an American politician . Between 1883 and 1887 he represented the state of Tennessee in the US House of Representatives .

Career

In 1844, Andrew Caldwell came to Tennessee with his parents, where the family settled near Nashville. He attended public schools in his new home and Franklin College , which he graduated from in 1854. Between 1854 and 1857 Caldwell worked as a teacher in Nashville; then he moved to Trenton . At that time he began to study law, which he did not finish because he served as a soldier in the Confederation Army during the Civil War . After the war he finished his law studies. After his admission to the bar in 1867, he began working in his new profession in Nashville. Between 1870 and 1878 he was district attorney in Davidson Counties and Rutherford Counties .

Politically, Caldwell was a member of the Democratic Party . Between 1880 and 1882 he was a member of the House of Representatives from Tennessee . In the congressional elections of 1882 he was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the sixth constituency of Tennessee , where he succeeded John Ford House on March 4, 1883 . After being re-elected, he was able to complete two terms in Congress until March 3, 1887 . In 1886 Caldwell declined to run again. In the following years he practiced as a lawyer again. He died in Nashville on November 22, 1906.

Web links

• Andrew Jackson Caldwell in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Andrew Jackson Caldwell in the database of Find a Grave (English)