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Sebastian, William King

lawyer, jurist, United States senator, was born in 1814 in Vernon, Tenn. He was appointed prosecuting attorney, and held the office until 1837. He was circuit judge from 1840 to 1842; and in the latter year was appointed a state supreme judge. He was a state senator, and president of the state senate in 1846; and was a presidential elector in 1848. He was a United States senator from Arkansas from 1847 to 1853; and was re-elected for the term ending in 1859, and, in the latter year, was reelected for a term of six years. He was expelled for disloyalty in 1861. He died May 20, 1865, in Memphis, Tenn.