White, Hugh Lawson
soldier, lawyer, jurist, United States senator, was born Oct. 30, 1773, in Iredell county, N. C.
In 1801 he was appointed judge of the supreme court of the state of Tennessee, and served until 1807; and in 1808 was appointed district attorney. In 1809 he was elected to the state senate; again served six years in the supreme court as judge. In 1815 he was chosen a president of the state bank of Tennessee; in 1820 he was again a member of the state senate, and about that time was appointed a commissioner to adjust the claims of our citizens against Spain. He was elected a senator in congress from 1825 to 1835, and from 1836 to 1840. At the election for president of the United States in 1836 he received all the votes of Georgia and Tennessee for that office. He died April 10, 1840, in Knoxville, Tenn.