William Blount Carter

William Blount Carter (born October 22, 1792 in Elizabethton , Carter County , Tennessee , †  April 17, 1848 ibid) was an American politician . Between 1835 and 1841 he represented the state of Tennessee in the US House of Representatives .

Career

William Carter attended public schools in his home country. During the British-American War of 1812 he was a colonel. After the war, Carter began a political career. He was both a member of the Tennessee House of Representatives and a member of the State Senate . In the 1820s he joined the opponents of later President Andrew Jackson and became a member of the National Republican Party . After founding the Whig Party , he joined it. In 1834 he chaired an assembly to revise the state constitution.

In the congressional elections of 1834 Carter was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the first constituency of Tennessee , where he succeeded Democrat John Blair on March 4, 1835 . After four re-elections, he was able to complete five legislative terms in Congress by March 3, 1845 . There he experienced the last two years of the presidency of Andrew Jackson until 1837, whose policy was also controversially discussed in Congress. Since 1841, the dispute between the new President John Tyler and the Whigs has shaped the work of Congress, in which from around 1841 there was also increased discussion of the possible annexation of the Republic of Texas , which had been independent of Mexico since 1836 .

After leaving the US House of Representatives, William Carter withdrew from politics. He died on April 17, 1848 in his birthplace, Elizabethton.

Web links

• William Blount Carter in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• William Blount Carter in the database of Find a Grave (English)