Pryor Lea

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Pryor Lea (born August 31, 1794 in Knox County , Southwest Territory , †  September 14, 1879 in Goliad , Texas ) was an American politician . Between 1827 and 1831 he represented the state of Tennessee in the US House of Representatives .

Life

Pryor Lea was the younger brother of Luke Lea (1783-1851), who also sat for the state of Tennessee in Congress . He first attended the schools in his home country and then Greeneville College . After completing a law degree and being admitted to the bar in 1817, he began working in his new profession in Knoxville . In 1813 he took part in a campaign against the Creek . In 1824 Lea became a federal attorney for Tennessee.

Politically, Lea joined the movement around the later President Andrew Jackson and became a member of the Democratic Party founded by him in 1828 . In the congressional elections of 1826 he was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the second constituency of Tennessee , where he succeeded John Alexander Cocke on March 4, 1827 . After re-election in 1828, he was able to complete two terms in Congress until March 3, 1831 . President Jackson's policies have been the subject of heated debate in Congress since 1829. In the elections of 1830 he was defeated by the National Republican Thomas Dickens Arnold .

After retiring from the US House of Representatives Lea moved in 1836 first by Jackson in the State of Mississippi and 1846 by Goliad in Texas. During these years he worked in the railway business. In 1861 he was a delegate at the meeting at which the state of Texas decided to leave the Union. He was a member of the Texas Senate from 1861 to 1865 . In 1875 he refused an appointment to a commission for the revision of the state constitution for reasons of age. He died in Goliad on September 14, 1879.

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SURNAME Lea, Pryor
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American politician
DATE OF BIRTH August 31, 1794
PLACE OF BIRTH Knox County , Tennessee
DATE OF DEATH September 14, 1879
Place of death Goliad , Texas