John DeWitt Clinton Atkins

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John DeWitt Clinton Atkins

John DeWitt Clinton Atkins (born June 4, 1825 at Manly's Chapel, Henry County , Tennessee , †  June 2, 1908 in Paris , Tennessee) was an American politician ( Democratic Party ) and a member of both the House of Representatives, the House of Representatives and the Confederate Congress of Tennessee.

Career

Atkins attended a private school in Paris, Tennessee, graduated from the University of Tennessee at Knoxville in 1846 and then studied law . He got his license to practice law, but he never practiced, instead doing agricultural work.

He decided to pursue a political career in 1849 when he became a member of the Tennessee House of Representatives , a position he held until 1851. He later served in the Tennessee Senate from 1855 to 1857 . As a Democrat, Atkins represented the ninth federal electoral district in the 35th US Congress . He worked there from March 4, 1857 to March 3, 1859. Previously, he ran unsuccessfully for the 36th US Congress .

When the Civil War broke out in 1861, he held the rank of Lieutenant Colonel in the 5th Tennessee Regiment of the Confederate Army . In the same year he also represented his state as a delegate in the Provisional Confederate Congress . He was subsequently elected to the first and second Confederate Congresses.

After the war he was elected as a Democrat in the 43rd and four subsequent US Congresses, where he represented the 7th federal electoral district until the reapportionment and then the 8th federal electoral district. During the 44th and 46th Congresses , he was the chairman of the United States House Committee on Appropriations . In 1882 he decided not to run again.

He then returned to agricultural work near Paris. On March 21, 1885, he was appointed United States Commissioner of Indian Affairs by US President Grover Cleveland . Atkins served in this capacity until his resignation on June 13, 1888. He also applied unsuccessfully for a Democratic nomination for the US Senate in 1888 . He then returned to agricultural work and then finally retired from public life in 1898 and moved to Paris. He lived there in seclusion until his death in 1908. He was buried in City Cemetery .

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SURNAME Atkins, John DeWitt Clinton
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American politician
DATE OF BIRTH June 4, 1825
PLACE OF BIRTH Henry County , Tennessee
DATE OF DEATH June 2, 1908
Place of death Paris , Tennessee