The history and geography of Texas as told in county names . ointed Dis-trict Attorney for that por-tion of North Carolina nowknown as Middle Tennesseeand located in Nashville. He was elected as a delegate to theconvention which framed the first Constitution of the State ofTennessee, in 1796, and was elected as the first representativeof the state in the Congress of the United States. In 1797 hewas elected to the United States Senate, but resigned in 1798to become Judge of the Supreme Court of Tennessee, whichposition he held until 1804. At the beginning of the War of1812 he joined the army an
The history and geography of Texas as told in county names . ointed Dis-trict Attorney for that por-tion of North Carolina nowknown as Middle Tennesseeand located in Nashville. He was elected as a delegate to theconvention which framed the first Constitution of the State ofTennessee, in 1796, and was elected as the first representativeof the state in the Congress of the United States. In 1797 hewas elected to the United States Senate, but resigned in 1798to become Judge of the Supreme Court of Tennessee, whichposition he held until 1804. At the beginning of the War of1812 he joined the army and was made a major general of vol-unteers and fought the Indians and British. On the 8th ofJanuary, 1815, he won his greatest military laurels in the Bat-tle of New Orleans. He resigned the position in 1818 and in1821 he was appointed territorial Governor of Florida. In 1823 he was again elected to the United States Senate, and in 1824 was the leading candidate for the Presidency, but not hav-ing a majority of all the votes, although a large plurality, the. 58 The History and Geography of Texas election was thrown into the House, and he was defeated. Thiswas greatly to his advantage, and in the next election he over-whelmingly defeated his opponent, John Quincy Adams. Hewas re-elected in 1832, and after a stormy career in that officehe retired to the Hermitage, near Nashville, in 1837, anddied there June 8, 1845. JASPER AND NEWTON. These counties were named for twin heroes of the Revolu-tionary War, and as they are placed side by side on the map ofTexas, they are placed together in this sketch. William Jasper was born in South Carolina in 1750, andenlisted in the Seventh Cavalry, under the command of CaptainDunbar, of Colonel Isaac Motts regiment, of which FrancisMarion was Lieutenant Colonel. The date of his enlistmentwas July 8, 1775, and the period for which he enlisted was threeyears. At the expiration of his term he re-enlisted in thesame command. His record as a private s
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