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Robert Hays (Tennessee)
Robert Hays (September 15, 1819) was a pioneer settler of Tennessee, United States. He served as a lieutenant in the American Revolutionary War and was an original member of the Society of the Cincinnati from North Carolina. Hays was granted land in Tennessee for his war service, settling on the Cumberland River just north of present-day Nashville. In 1786 he married Jane Donelson, a daughter of John Donelson. Through this marriage he was to become a brother-in-law of his neighbor, future president Andrew Jackson. He officiated the (re)marriage of Jackson and his sister-in-law Rachel in 1794. The same year Hays represented Davidson County in the North Carolina state legislature. He co-led the Coldwater Expedition against the Cherokee and the Creeks in 1787. He established the now-extinct settlement of Haysborough. Through the 1790s, Hays was an officer in the Mero District militia: lieutenant colonel of cavalry, muster master, and lieutenant colonel commandant by 1797. In 17 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
American Revolutionary War
The American Revolutionary War (April 19, 1775 – September 3, 1783), also known as the Revolutionary War or American War of Independence, was the armed conflict that comprised the final eight years of the broader American Revolution, in which American Patriot (American Revolution), Patriot forces organized as the Continental Army and commanded by George Washington defeated the British Army during the American Revolutionary War, British Army. The conflict was fought in North America, the Caribbean, and the Atlantic Ocean. The war's outcome seemed uncertain for most of the war. However, Washington and the Continental Army's decisive victory in the Siege of Yorktown in 1781 led King George III and the Kingdom of Great Britain to negotiate an end to the war in the Treaty of Paris (1783), Treaty of Paris two years later, in 1783, in which the British monarchy acknowledged the independence of the Thirteen Colonies, leading to the establishment of the United States as an independent and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Willie Blount
Willie Blount (April 18, 1768September 10, 1835) was an American politician who served as the third Governor of Tennessee from 1809 to 1815. Blount's efforts to raise funds and soldiers during the War of 1812 earned Tennessee the nickname, "Volunteer State." He was the younger half-brother of Southwest Territory governor, William Blount. He was a member of the Democratic-Republican Party. Early life Willie (pronounced "Wiley") was born at Blount Hall in Bertie County in the Province of North Carolina, to Jacob Blount and his second wife, Hannah Salter Blount. He studied at the College of New Jersey (modern Princeton) and King's College (modern Columbia). He read law with Judge John Sitgreaves in New Bern, North Carolina, in the 1780s, and was admitted to the North Carolina bar.Anne-Leslie Owens,Willie Blount" ''Tennessee Encyclopedia of History and Culture'', 2009. Retrieved: July 10, 2012.Mary B. Clark, "Willie Blount," ''Governors of Tennessee'', Vol. 3 (Memphis State Univ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robards–Donelson–Jackson Relationship Controversy
The circumstances of the end of Rachel Donelson's relationship with Lewis Robards and transition to a relationship with Andrew Jackson resurfaced as a campaign issue in the 1828 United States presidential election, 1828 U.S. presidential election. The Jackson campaign committee led by John Overton (judge), John Overton created and publicized an exculpatory narrative to paper over the irregular marriage that had occurred almost 40 years prior. The reality was that Andrew Jackson's wife had been married to another man when they met and "eloped," and the Jacksons would not be legally married to each other until almost five years later. Introducing bigamy and adultery into the discourse was part of the larger no-holds-barred political combat that defined the 1828 election. Overton's timeline and his characterization of the three parties to the "love triangle" was carried forward by later presidential biographers; in the late 20th century historians began to reassess the evidence and cha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wards Of Andrew Jackson
This is a list of people for whom Andrew Jackson, seventh U.S. president, acted as ''pater familias'' or served as a guardian, legal or otherwise. Andrew and Rachel Donelson Jackson had no biological children together. As Tennessee history writer Stanley Horn put it in 1938, "Jackson's friends had a habit of dying, and leaving their orphans to his care." As Jackson biographer Robert V. Remini wrote in 1977, "The list of Jackson's wards is almost endless...new names turn up with fresh examination." There was no comprehensive index of the wards until Rachel Meredith's 2013 master's thesis. Historian Harriet Chappell Owsley commented in 1982, "It would make an interesting study to follow each of Jackson's wards by means of their correspondence with him but this would require a book instead of an article as the correspondence is voluminous." (Owsley was writing about A. J. Donelson, who has since been the subject of a full-length book; Donelson was Jackson's private secretary during his ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jackson, Tennessee
Jackson is a city in and the county seat of Madison County, Tennessee, United States. Located east of Memphis, Tennessee, Memphis and 130 Miles Southwest of Nashville, it is a regional center of trade for West Tennessee. Its total population was 68,205 as of the 2020 United States census. Jackson is the primary city of the Jackson metropolitan area, Tennessee, Jackson, Tennessee metropolitan area, Madison County, Tennessee, Madison County's largest city, and the second-largest city in West Tennessee after Memphis. It is home to the Tennessee Supreme Court's courthouse for West Tennessee, as Jackson was the major city in the west when the court was established in 1834. In the antebellum era, Jackson was the market city for an agricultural area based on cultivation of cotton, the major commodity crop. Beginning in 1851, the city became a hub of railroad systems ultimately connecting to major markets in the north and south, as well as east and west. This was key to its development, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert I
Robert I may refer to: * Robert I, Duke of Neustria (697–748) *Robert I of France (866–923), King of France, 922–923, rebelled against Charles the Simple * Rollo, Duke of Normandy (c. 846 – c. 930; reigned 911–927) * Robert I Archbishop of Rouen (d. 1037), Archbishop of Rouen, 989–1037, son of Duke Richard I of Normandy * Robert the Magnificent (1000–1035), also named Robert I, Duke of Normandy, 1027–1035), father of William the Conqueror. Sometimes known as Robert II, with Rollo of Normandy, c. 860 – c. 932, as Robert I because Robert was his baptismal name when he became a Christian * Robert I, Duke of Burgundy (1011–1076), Duke of Burgundy, 1032–1076 * Robert I, Count of Flanders (1029–1093), also named Robert the Frisian, Count of Flanders, 1071–1093 * Robert I de Brus (ca. 1078 – 1141/1142) * Robert I of Dreux (c. 1123 – 1188), Count of Braine in France, son of King Louis VI *Robert I of Artois (1216–1250), son of King Louis VIII of France *Ro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Butler (U
Bob, Bobby, Rob, or Robert Butler may refer to: Politicians *Robert Butler (diplomat) (1897–1955), U.S. ambassador to Australia (1946–48) and Cuba (1948–1951) * Robert Butler (MP), 16th-century member of parliament for Bristol * Robert Butler (U.S. commander) (1786–1860), U.S. commander receiving the former East Florida for the United States in 1821, from Spain * Robert Butler (Virginia politician) (1784–1853), American, treasurer of the state of Virginia, U.S. * Cuthbert Butler (politician) (Robert John Cuthbert Butler, 1889–1950), member of the Legislative Assembly of Queensland, Australia * Robert L. Butler (1927–2019), American politician, twelve-term mayor of Marion, Illinois, U.S. * Robert R. Butler (1881–1933), American politician, judge, and representative from Oregon, U.S. * Rob Butler (politician) (born 1967), Conservative British MP for Aylesbury from 2019 to 2024 Sports * Robert Butler (cricketer) (1852–1916), English cricketer *Bob Butler (1891– ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Samuel Jackson Hays
Samuel Jackson Hays (–November 3, 1866) was an American militia officer, lawyer, slave owner, plantation owner, and railroad investor in west Tennessee. His father was Robert Hays and his uncle was President Andrew Jackson; Jackson's wife Rachel and his mother Jane Donelson Hays were sisters. The extended Donelson clan, with Jackson serving as patriarch (founder John Donelson was killed in 1785), is credited with being exceptionally efficient at using kinship networks as profit centers and engaging in what has been described as vertically integrated family-business imperialism: "They fought the native peoples, negotiated the treaties to end the fighting and demanded native lands as the price of war, surveyed the newly available lands, bought those lands, litigated over disputed boundaries, adjudicated the cases, and made and kept laws within the region that had been carved out of Indian lands." Historian Lorman Ratner described Andrew Jackson as a boy without a father, and a man ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Edward Butler
William Edward Butler (1790–1882) was a pioneer settler of western Tennessee and a kinsman of President Andrew Jackson. The son of Revolutionary War officer Thomas Butler, he married Jackson's niece and ward Martha Thompson "Patsy" Hays, sister of Stockley Donelson Hays and Samuel Jackson Hays. Butler served as a "surgeon of the 2nd Tennessee Regiment under Andrew Jackson" in the War of 1812. Butler ran against Davy Crockett in 1821 for a seat in the Tennessee General Assembly. Butler was at that time known as "one of the wealthiest, most public—spirited, aristocratic, and hospitable men of Jackson, Tennessee." Crockett won, partly because he handed out whiskey and tobacco to voters, partly on public policy and charisma, and partly because he appealed to the proletariat with stump speech descriptions of Butler's fine lifestyle including luxurious carpets, such that "every day he walks on truck finer than any gowns your wives or your daughters, in all their lives, ever wore!" ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stockley Donelson Hays
Stockley Donelson Hays (December 1788 – September 8, 1831) was a 19th-century American lawyer, military officer, and nephew of U.S. president Andrew Jackson. He was involved in historically significant events from an early day, accompanying Aaron Burr down the Mississippi during the Burr conspiracy when he was a teenager, aiding Jackson in a famous tavern brawl in 1813, and serving in Jackson's army during the Creek War. Hays served as a quartermaster of the U.S. Army in the southwestern theater of the War of 1812, and then as a judge advocate of the Southern Division of the U.S. Army at the pay level of a major from 1816 to 1821. Stockley D. Hays and several siblings married Butlers who had become wards of Andrew Jackson on their father's death; the Hays and Butler families remained close to Jackson through his military and political campaigns. In the 1820s, the Hays family and their Butler connections were among the founding settlers of Jackson, Tennessee, which was establish ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aaron Burr
Aaron Burr Jr. (February 6, 1756 – September 14, 1836) was an American politician, businessman, lawyer, and Founding Fathers of the United States, Founding Father who served as the third vice president of the United States from 1801 to 1805 during Thomas Jefferson's Presidency of Thomas Jefferson, first presidential term. He founded the Manhattan Company on September 1, 1799. His personal and political conflict with Alexander Hamilton culminated in the Burr–Hamilton duel where Burr mortally wounded Hamilton. Burr was indicted for dueling, but all charges against him were dropped. The controversy ended his political career. Burr was born to a prominent family in what was then the Province of New Jersey. After studying theology at Princeton University, he began his career as a lawyer before joining the Continental Army as an officer in the American Revolutionary War in 1775. After leaving military service in 1779, Burr practiced law in New York City, where he became a leading ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson (, 1743July 4, 1826) was an American Founding Fathers of the United States, Founding Father and the third president of the United States from 1801 to 1809. He was the primary author of the United States Declaration of Independence, Declaration of Independence. Jefferson was the nation's first United States Secretary of State, U.S. secretary of state under George Washington and then the nation's second vice president of the United States, vice president under John Adams. Jefferson was a leading proponent of democracy, republicanism, and Natural law, natural rights, and he produced formative documents and decisions at the state, national, and international levels. Jefferson was born into the Colony of Virginia's planter class, dependent on slavery in the colonial history of the United States, slave labor. During the American Revolution, Jefferson represented Virginia in the Second Continental Congress, which unanimously adopted the Declaration of Independence. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
