In 1841,Spencer Jarnagin was nominated for U.S. Senator by the Whig caucus in theTennessee General Assembly. However, some of the Democrats in the legislature decided that no senator would be preferable to a Whig. Known as the "Immortal Thirteen" by Tennessee Democrats, they refused to allow a quorum on the issue.[1]
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