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Caruthers, Robert L

soldier, jurist, congressman, was born July 31, 1800, in Smith county, Tenn. In 1834 he was elected a brigadier-general of militia; was a member of the Tennessee legislature in 1835; and was a presidential elector in 1845, declining to run for governor. He was a representative in congress from Tennessee from 1841 to 1843, declining a re-election; and in 1852 was called to a seat on the supreme bench of Tennessee, holding the position many years. He was a delegate to the peace convention of 1861.

He died Oct. 4, 1882.