- William Tecumsah Avery
William Tecumsah Avery was an American politician and a member of the
United States House of Representatives for the 10th congressional district ofTennessee . He was born inHardeman County, Tennessee onNovember 11 ,1819 . He attended the common schools, graduated from old Jackson College nearColumbia, Tennessee in Maury County, studied law, and was admitted to the bar. He moved toMemphis, Tennessee in 1840 and engaged in the practice of law.He was a member of the
Tennessee House of Representatives in 1843. He was elected as a Democrat to the Thirty-fifth and Thirty-sixth Congress. He served fromMarch 4 ,1857 toMarch 3 ,1861 , but he was not a candidate for renomination in 1860. During the Civil War, he served as alieutenant colonel in theConfederate Army . He was a clerk of the criminal court of Shelby County from 1870 to 1874. He resumed the practice of law in Memphis, Tennessee. He accidentally drowned in Ten Mile Bayou in Crittenden County,Arkansas , opposite Memphis, onMay 20 ,1880 . He was interred in Elmwood Cemetery in Memphis.External links
* [http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=7786930 William Avery] at Find-A-Grave
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