George Washington Lent Marr

George Washington Lent Marr (born May 25, 1779 in Henry County , Virginia , †  September 5, 1856 in New Madrid , Missouri ) was an American politician . Between 1817 and 1819 he represented the state of Tennessee in the US House of Representatives .

Career

George Marr attended the public schools of his home country and then studied at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill . Between 1807 and 1809 he held the post of Attorney General in western Tennessee. He then acted as a public prosecutor in the fifth judicial district of this state until 1813. He was wounded during an Indian War.

Politically, Marr was a member of the Democratic Republican Party . In the state-wide held congressional elections of 1816 he was elected for the fourth mandate from Tennessee to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC , where he succeeded James B. Reynolds on March 4, 1817 . Since he was not nominated for re-election by his party in 1818, he could only complete one legislative period in Congress until March 3, 1819 .

After leaving the US House of Representatives, George Marr became one of the largest landowners in western Tennessee. He worked mainly as a planter . From 1821 he was based in Clarksville. In 1834 he attended a meeting to revise the Tennessee Constitution as a delegate. He became a member of the Whigs in the mid-1830s . He died on September 5, 1856 on his estate on an island in the Mississippi River near New Madrid.

Web links

• George Washington Lent Marr in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• George Washington Lent Marr in the database of Find a Grave (English)