William Claiborne Dunlap

William Claiborne Dunlap (born February 25, 1798 in Knoxville , Tennessee , †  November 16, 1872 in Memphis , Tennessee) was an American politician . Between 1833 and 1837 he represented the state of Tennessee in the US House of Representatives .

Career

William Dunlap attended Ebenezer Academy and Maryville College in Tennessee from 1813 to 1817 . After a subsequent law degree and his admission as a lawyer in 1819, he began to work in Knoxville in his new profession. In the years 1818 and 1819 he also took part in an Indian war. From 1828 Dunlap lived in Bolivar .

Politically, he joined President Andrew Jackson and became a member of the Democratic Party founded by him . In the congressional elections of 1832 he was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC , in the then newly created 13th  constituency of Tennessee , where he took up his new mandate on March 4, 1833. After re-election, he was able to complete two legislative terms in Congress until March 3, 1837 . During this time there was heated discussion of President Jackson's policies. It was about the controversial enforcement of the Indian Removal Act , the conflict with the state of South Carolina , which culminated in the nullification crisis , and the banking policy of the president.

In 1836, Dunlap was not re-elected. Between 1840 and 1849 he was a judge in the eleventh judicial district of Tennessee, then he practiced again as a lawyer. He served in the Tennessee Senate in 1851, 1853, and 1857 ; between 1857 and 1859 he was a member of the House of Representatives of his state. Dunlap died on November 16, 1872 near Memphis, where he was also buried.

Web links

• William Claiborne Dunlap in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• William Claiborne Dunlap in the database of Find a Grave (English)