Adrian Van Sinderen Lindsley (1814–1885) was an American lawyer, businessman and politician from

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Early life

Adrian Van Sinderen Lindsley was born in 1814 in New Jersey.Andrew Johnson, ''The Papers: 1822-1851'', Knoxville, Tennessee: University of Tennessee Press, Volume 5, p. 32

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(1786-1855), served as the first President of the

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'', January 26, 1885 His brother, John Berrien Lindsley (1822-1897), served as its second President. His mother was Margaret Lawrence Lindsley. His maternal grandfather was

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(1761–1797), who served as the New York Attorney General from 1792 to 1795. Lindsley graduated from the University of Nashville.

Career

Lindsley started his career as a lawyer.Paul Keith Conkin, ''Peabody College: From a Frontier Academy to the Frontiers of Teaching and Learning'', Nashville, Tennessee: Vanderbilt University Press, 2002, p. 7

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from Nashville to

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. He also served as the Secretary of the Board of Trust of his alma mater, the University of Nashville, from 1839 to 1885. Lindsley was a Republican and supported the

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. He served as Nashville postmaster from 1862 to 1867, during the

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of 1861-1865. In a letter to Governor

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(1808–1875) on April 22, 1862, he blamed Reverend

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(1807-1887), a minister of the

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for encouraging secessionist activities in Nashville, as opposed to more moderate Methodists like Reverend

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(1824–1889), Reverend

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(1806-1888) and Alexander Little Page Green (1806-1874). After the war, Lindsley served as a member of the

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from 1868 to 1869. As Senator, he opposed the coercive policies towards former Confederates imposed by Governor

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(1805-1877).

Personal life

Lindsley married Eliza Trimble Lindsley (1819-1893). They had nine children. Lindsley died in 1885 in

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. He was buried at the Mount Olivet Cemetery (Nashville), Mount Olivet Cemetery in Nashville, Tennessee.

References

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