Ambrose Hundley Sevier

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Ambrose Hundley Sevier

Ambrose Hundley Sevier (* 4. November 1801 in Greeneville , Tennessee , †  31 December 1848 in Pulaski County , Arkansas ) was an American politician of the Democratic Party . He was one of the first two US Senators for the state of Arkansas.

After completing his schooling, Ambrose Sevier moved to Missouri in 1820 , before settling in Little Rock in the Arkansas Territory the following year . There he became an administrative officer in the territorial parliament. He also studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1823, after which he began to practice as a lawyer. From 1823 to 1827 he was himself a member of the territorial legislature and last acted as its speaker .

From February 13, 1828, Sevier sat as a non-voting delegate in the United States House of Representatives . He took the place of the late Henry Wharton Conway in Washington and remained there after multiple re-elections until June 15, 1836. Through his commitment to make the territory a state, he was known as the "Father of Arkansas Statehood".

Consequently, after joining the Union in 1836, he was elected alongside William Savin Fulton as one of the two representatives of the new state in the US Senate. After being confirmed twice in office, he resigned on March 15, 1848. During his time in the Senate he was, among other things, chairman of the foreign affairs committee ; in addition, on December 27, 1845, he was given the office of pro tempore honorary president for one day .

In 1848 Sevier was sent to Mexico on a diplomatic mission . There he worked after the end of the Mexican-American War on the constitution of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo . He died on his plantation in Pulaski County on New Year's Eve of the same year. After his burial in Mount Holly Cemetery , the State of Arkansas erected a memorial in his honor in the cemetery. Moreover, that was Sevier County named after him.

Ambrose Sevier was the great-nephew of John Sevier , the first governor of Tennessee . His cousins James Sevier Conway and Elias Conway held the office of governor of Arkansas as did his son-in-law Thomas James Churchill . His brother-in-law Robert Ward Johnson also became a US Senator for Arkansas.

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SURNAME Sevier, Ambrose Hundley
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American politician
DATE OF BIRTH November 4, 1801
PLACE OF BIRTH near Greeneville , Tennessee
DATE OF DEATH December 31, 1848
Place of death Pulaski County , Arkansas