Morgan W. Brown nomination, 1834.

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Morgan W. Brown nomination, 1834.

Collection consists of a signed nomination by President Andrew Jackson and Secretary of State Louis McLane for Morgan W. Brown to serve as federal judge for the Eastern and Western District of Tennessee on January 3, 1834.

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Jackson, Andrew, 1767-1845

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Andrew Jackson, 7th President of the United States. Born on March 15, 1767 in the Waxhaw Settlement in South Carolina; though just a boy, participated in the battle of Hanging Rock during the Revolution, captured by the British and imprisoned. He worked for a time in a saddler's shop and afterward taught school before studying law in Salisbury, N.C. In 1788 he was appointed solicitor of the western district of North Carolina, comprising what is now the State of Tennessee. Upon the admission of T...

Brown, Morgan Welles, 1800-1853.

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Morgan Welles Brown served as a federal judge for the United States District Court for the Eastern and Western District of Tennessee from January 3, 1834 until his death on March 7, 1853. He was born at Clarksville, Tennessee in 1800. He began to study law in 1830 and started a private practice in Nashville in 1833. He was also the editor of the Nashville Republican from 1832 to 1833. Brown was nominated for federal judge by President Andrew Jackson on December 18, 1833 and confirmed by the Unit...

McLane Louis 1786-1857

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Member of Congress, 1817-1827, and U.S. Senator, 1827-1829, minister to England; secretary of the treasury, 1831; secretary of state, 1833; and president of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. From the description of Papers, 1830-1838. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 19902833 Secretary of Treasury and State under President Jackson. From the description of Autograph letter signed : [n.p.], to Hezekiah Niles, [no year] Mar. 12. (Unknown). WorldCat recor...