Abraham McClellan

Abraham McClellan (born October 4, 1789 in Sullivan County , Tennessee , †  May 3, 1866 ibid) was an American politician . Between 1837 and 1843 he represented the state of Tennessee in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Abraham McClellan was born on the White Top Estate. He attended the public schools in his home country and Washington College . He then worked in agriculture. At the same time he began a political career. Between 1823 and 1825 and again from 1827 to 1829 he sat as a member of the House of Representatives from Tennessee ; between 1829 and 1833 he was a member of the State Senate . In the 1820s he joined the later President Andrew Jackson and became a member of the Democratic Party founded by him in 1828 . In 1834 he was a member of a convention to revise the state constitution of Tennessee. In 1836 and 1837 he took part in the Seminole Wars as a soldier in the state militia .

In the congressional elections of 1836 McClellan was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the second constituency of Tennessee , where he succeeded Samuel Bunch on March 4, 1837 . After two re-elections, he was able to complete three legislative terms in Congress by March 3, 1843 . These were increasingly determined by discussions about a possible annexation of the Republic of Texas , which had been independent of Mexico since 1836 .

After leaving the US House of Representatives, McClellan returned to farming. Until his death on May 3, 1866, he did not appear politically on his "White Top" estate.

Web links

• Abraham McClellan in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Abraham McClellan in the database of Find a Grave (English)