05 Nov 2018 Aaron Venable Brown AARON VENABLE BROWN was born in Brunswick County, Virginia. After attending the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, he read law in Nashville and was admitted to the Bar in… National Governors Association
05 Nov 2018 Neill Smith Brown NEILL SMITH BROWN was born in Giles County, Tennessee. Largely self-educated, he attended the manual labor academy in Maury County, taught school for several years, and studied law. He was… National Governors Association
05 Nov 2018 William Trousdale WILLIAM TROUSDALE was born in Orange County, North Carolina, and moved with his family to Tennessee at the age of six. He attended common schools, was privately tutored, and studied… National Governors Association
05 Nov 2018 William Bowen Campbell WILLIAM BOWEN CAMPBELL was born in Sumner County, Tennessee. He studied law with Governor David Campbell of Virginia and was admitted to the Bar in 1830, after which he began… National Governors Association
04 Nov 2018 Andrew Johnson Born in Raleigh, North Carolina, ANDREW JOHNSON never attended school and was eventually taught to read and write by James J. Selby, a tailor, for whom Johnson apprenticed. He moved… National Governors Association
04 Nov 2018 Isham Green Harris Born in Franklin County, Tennessee, ISHAM GREEN HARRIS moved to Paris, Tennessee at the age of fourteen, becoming a clerk in a mercantile establishment. He later studied law and was… National Governors Association
04 Nov 2018 Robert Looney Caruthers ROBERT LOONEY CARUTHERS was born in Smith County. Educated at Washington College, he studied law and served as circuit attorney general from 1827 to 1832. He was elected to the… National Governors Association
04 Nov 2018 Edward Hazzard East EDWARD HAZZARD EAST was a graduate of Lebanon Law School, which became Cumberland School of Law. A respected jurist and orator, he argued a number of cases before the U.S.… National Governors Association
04 Nov 2018 William Gannaway Brownlow Born in Wythe County, Virginia, WILLIAM GANNAWAY BROWNLOW moved to East Tennessee, where he was orphaned at the age of eleven. He worked on his uncle's farm in Virginia for… National Governors Association
04 Nov 2018 DeWitt Clinton Senter DE WITT CLINTON SENTER was born in McMinn County, Tennessee, and lived for much of his youth on a farm in Grainger County. After attending the Academy at Strawberry Plains,… National Governors Association
04 Nov 2018 John Calvin Brown JOHN CALVIN BROWN was born in Giles County, Tennessee and attended school-including Jackson College-in Columbia. He read law in the office of his brother and began a law practice in… National Governors Association
04 Nov 2018 James Davis Porter JAMES DAVIS PORTER was born in Paris, Tennessee and received a bachelor of arts degree from the University of Nashville in 1846. He went on to study law under his… National Governors Association
