Claiborne, Thomas
congressman.
He was a representative in congress from Tennessee from 1817 to 1819.
CLAIBORNE, WILLIAM CHARLES COLE, was born in 1775 in Sussex county, Va. He was the first governor of the state of Louisiana.
He was a lawyer by profession; was judge of the supreme court of law and equity in Tennessee, and in 1797 was a representative in congress, and reelected to a second term as a member from Tennessee. In 1801 he was appointed governor of the Mississippi territory. In 1803 he was commissioned to accept the transfer of the province of Louisiana to the United States; and was appointed governor-general for three years, and served until 1817. He was twenty years in the public service. He died Dec. 23, 1817, while a representative in the United States senate.