Adam Huntsman | |
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| Member of theU.S. House of Representatives from Tennessee's 12th district | |
| In office March 4, 1835 – March 3, 1837 | |
| Preceded by | Davy Crockett |
| Succeeded by | John W. Crockett |
| Member of theTennessee Senate | |
| In office 1815–1821 1827–1831 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | February 11, 1786 |
| Died | August 23, 1849 (aged 63) |
| Party | Jacksonian |
| Profession | |
Adam Huntsman (February 11, 1786 – August 23, 1849) was an Americanlawyer and politician who representedTennessee'stwelfth district in theUnited States House of Representatives from 1835 to 1837. He was a slaveholder.[1]
Huntsman was born inCharlotte County, Virginia, on February 11, 1786.[2] He came toKnox County, Tennessee, in 1809, where he settled for about three years. It was here that he studied law underJohn Williams, one ofKnoxville's most prominentattorneys in the early nineteenth century and later a United States Senator.
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Huntsman carried the legal skills he learned from Williams with him westward toOverton County, Tennessee and laterMadison County, Tennessee, where he became a highly regardedcriminal lawyer.
Huntsman served in the Tennessee state senate from 1815 to 1821 and from 1827 to 1831. A proponent of revision to the state constitution, he was elected a delegate forMadison County, Tennessee, at the constitutional convention held inNashville, Tennessee, in 1834. He defeatedDavid Crockett for the Twelfth Congressional seat in 1835, a loss that led to Crockett's journey toTexas and his death at theAlamo.
Huntsman served one term as aJacksonianDemocrat to theTwenty-fourth Congress. A leader of the Democratic Party in WestTennessee in the 1830s and 1840s, he corresponded with notable politicians of his day such asAndrew Jackson,James K. Polk,James Buchanan, andJohn C. Calhoun. His term lasted from March 4, 1835, to March 4, 1837.[3] He ran unsuccessfully for re-election to theTwenty-fifth Congress, losing toJohn Wesley Crockett, his predecessor's son.
Huntsman died inJackson, Madison County, Tennessee on August 23, 1849 (aged 63) and isinterred at Old Salem Cemetery near Jackson.[4]
His daughter, Anne Huntsman Scurlock, had a grave marker placed in the "colored section" of Riverside Cemetery in Jackson, Tennessee, for an enslaved man named Silas, who died in 1857. The marker reads "He is not forgotten by his attached mistress."[5]
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| Preceded by | Member of the U.S. House of Representatives fromTennessee's 12th congressional district March 4, 1835 – March 4, 1837 | Succeeded by |
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