Abram Poindexter Maury

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Abram Poindexter Maury (born December 26, 1801 in Franklin , Tennessee , †  July 22, 1848 ibid) was an American politician . Between 1835 and 1839 he represented the state of Tennessee in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Abram Maury was a distant cousin of Maury Maverick (1895-1954), who sat in Congress for the State of Texas from 1935 to 1939 . After primary school, he was a newspaper at the age of 16 years, St. Louis ( Missouri out). In 1820 he enrolled at the US Military Academy at West Point . He broke off this training a year later. Instead he went to law school; he also published a newspaper in Nashville . Since the beginning of the 1830s, Maury was also politically active. He joined the opposition to President Andrew Jackson . He later became a member of the Whig Party, founded in 1835 . In 1831 and 1832, and again from 1843 to 1844, Maury was a member of the House of Representatives from Tennessee .

In the congressional elections of 1834 he was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the eighth constituency of Tennessee , where he succeeded David W. Dickinson on March 4, 1835 . After re-election, he was able to complete two legislative terms in Congress until March 3, 1839. Until 1837 these were still determined by the discussions about the politics of President Jackson. In 1838 Maury declined to run again for Congress. After retiring from the US House of Representatives, he worked as a lawyer in Williamson County . He also dealt with literary matters. He was a member of the Tennessee Senate in 1845 and 1846 . He died on July 22, 1848.

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SURNAME Maury, Abram Poindexter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American politician
DATE OF BIRTH December 26, 1801
PLACE OF BIRTH near Franklin , Tennessee
DATE OF DEATH July 22, 1848
Place of death near Franklin , Tennessee