James T. Sanford | |
---|---|
Member of the U.S.HouseofRepresentatives from Tennessee's 6th district | |
In office March 4, 1823 –March 3, 1825 | |
Preceded by | Henry H. Bryan |
Succeeded by | James K. Polk |
Personal details | |
Profession | planter,politician |
James T. Sanford was an American politician who represented Tennessee in the United States House of Representatives from 1823 to 1825.
Sanford was born in the U.S. state of Virginia. He attended the local common schools,and moved to Columbia,Tennessee,where he engaged in agricultural pursuits. [1]
Elected as a Jacksonian Republican to the Eighteenth Congress,Sanford served from March 4,1823 to March 3,1825. [2] He was an unsuccessful candidate for re-election to the Nineteenth Congress in 1825.
While his death date and place of interment is unknown, [3] he contributed a part of his wealth to the establishment of Jackson College at Columbia,Tennessee. [1]
Henry Wharton Conway was a United States naval officer during the War of 1812 and a politician in Arkansas Territory,who was elected as a territorial delegate (1823–1827) to the United States House of Representatives for three consecutive congresses. He died in 1827 as a result of wounds from a duel with Robert Crittenden,a former friend and political ally.
Nathan Sanford was an American politician.
David Barton was one of the first U.S. senators from Missouri,serving from 1821 to 1831.
James B. Reynolds was an American politician that represented Tennessee in the United States House of Representatives.
Francis Jones was an American politician who represented Tennessee in the United States House of Representatives.
John Alexander Cocke was an American politician and soldier who represented Tennessee's 2nd district in the United States House of Representatives from 1819 to 1827. He also served several terms in the Tennessee Senate and the Tennessee House of Representatives,and was Speaker of the latter for two sessions. During the Creek War,Cocke commanded the Eastern Division of the Tennessee militia.
James Israel Standifer was an American politician who represented Tennessee in the United States House of Representatives.
James Coffield Mitchell was an American politician who represented Tennessee in the United States House of Representatives.
John Hartwell Marable was an American politician who represented Tennessee in the United States House of Representatives.
James Houston Thomas was an American politician and a member of the United States House of Representatives for Tennessee's 6th congressional district.
Frederick Perry Stanton was an American lawyer and politician who served in the United States House of Representatives for Tennessee's 10th congressional district and as Secretary of the Kansas Territory.
Ralph Isaacs Ingersoll was a lawyer,politician,and diplomat who served as a member of the Connecticut House of Representatives,where he was Speaker of the House,a United States representative from Connecticut for four consecutive terms from 1825 to 1833,and was the U.S. Minister to the Russian Empire under President James K. Polk in the late 1840s.
James Minor Quarles was an American politician and a member of the United States House of Representatives for Tennessee's 8th congressional district.
James Henry Randolph was an American politician and a member of the United States House of Representatives for the 1st congressional district of Tennessee.
Ambrose Spencer was an American lawyer and politician.
Hubert Frederick Fisher was an American politician and a member of the United States House of Representatives for the 10th congressional district of Tennessee.
James Rariden was an American lawyer and politician who served two terms as a U.S. Representative from Indiana,from 1837 to 1841.
John Sanford was an American businessman and politician who served one term as a U.S. Representative from New York from 1841 to 1843.
James William Gazlay was an American lawyer and politician who served as a U.S. Representative from Ohio for one term from 1823 to 1825.
Francis White was a distinguished early American lawyer and politician in what was then the U.S. state of Virginia.