Jeremiah Clemens

Jeremiah Clemens

Jeremiah Clemens (* 28. December 1814 in Huntsville , Alabama , †  21st May 1865 ) was an American politician of the Democratic Party , of the State of Alabama in the US Senate represented.

After attending La Grange College , Clemens graduated from the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa in 1833 . He studied then law at Transylvania University in Lexington ( Kentucky ), was admitted to the bar in 1834 and began practicing in Huntsville. In 1838 he was appointed federal attorney for the Northern Judicial District of Alabama.

In the following years political and military activities alternated. He was a member of the Alabama House of Representatives from 1839 to 1841 and from 1843 to 1844 , interrupted by a service in the Texas War of Independence . During the Mexican-American War he fought with the rank of Lieutenant Colonel in the US Army .

In 1848, Clemens applied unsuccessfully for a seat in the US House of Representatives . The following year he was elected to the US Senate to take the place of the late Dixon Hall Lewis . Clemens stayed there from November 30, 1849 to March 3, 1853.

As a result, Jeremiah Clemens, who was a cousin of Mark Twain (real name Samuel Clemens ), devoted himself to his writing. He wrote several novels, including "A Tale of the Times of Aaron Burr and Alexander Hamilton " and "Tobias Wilson, a Tale of the Great Rebellion". In 1858 he moved to Memphis for a year , where he worked for a newspaper; on his return to Alabama in 1861 he was a delegate to the state's Secession Convention . He held several offices under the confederation government, but declared his support for the union in 1864. The following year Clemens died in his native Huntsville.

Web links

• Jeremiah Clemens in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Jeremiah Clemens in the database of Find a Grave (English)
• Jeremiah Clemens at The Political Graveyard