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From: "Patricia Hall" <>
Subject: [RHEA-L] Biographical Directory of the American Congress- Rhea
Date: Sun, 20 Jun 1999 18:08:10 -0500


Biographical Directory of the American Congress, 1774-1949
Biographies
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page 1731
RHEA, John, a Representative from Tennessee; born in the parish of Langhorn,
County Londonderry, Ireland, in 1753; immigrated to the United States in
1769 with his parents, who settled in Philadelphia, Pa.; moved to Piney
Creek, Md., in 1771 and to eastern Tennessee in 1778; completed preparatory
studies and was graduated from Princeton College in 1780; member of the
Patriot force in the Battle of King's Mountain in October 1780; clerk of the
Sullivan County Court in the proposed State of Franklin and subsequently in
North Carolina 1785-1790; member of the House of Commons of North Carolina;
was a delegate to the State convention that ratified the Federal
Constitution in 1789; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1789; delegate
to the constitutional convention of Tennessee in 1796; attorney general of
Greene County, Tenn., in 1796; member of the State house of representatives
in 1796 and 1797; elected as a Democrat to the Eighth and to the five
succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1803-March 3, 1815); appointed United States
commissioner to treat with the Choctaw Nation in 1816; elected to the
Fifteenth, Sixteenth, and Seventeenth Congresses (March 4, 1817-March 3,
1823); actively connected with higher education in Tennessee; retired from
active pursuits and resided on the Rhea plantation near Blountville,
Sullivan County, Tenn., where he died May 27, 1832; interment in the
Blountville Cemetery.

Most of us know who this is.
Pat H.

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