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Ambrose Hundley Sevier (November 4, 1801 – December 31, 1848) was an attorney, politician and planter from Arkansas. A member of the political Conway-Johnson family that dominated the state and national delegations in the antebellum years, he was elected by the legislature as a Democratic U.S. Senator.
1 de nov. de 2023 · Ambrose Hundley Sevier was a territorial delegate and one of the first U.S. senators from the state of Arkansas. Sevier was also one of the founders of a political dynasty which ruled antebellum Arkansas politics from the 1820s until the Civil War.
28 de abr. de 2022 · Ambrose Hundley Sevier was a territorial delegate and one of the first U.S. senators from the state of Arkansas. Sevier was also one of the founders of a political dynasty which ruled antebellum Arkansas politics from the 1820s until the Civil War.
- Tennessee
- Greene County, Tennessee, United States
- November 04, 1801
Ambrose Hundley Sevier is known as the "Father of Arkansas Statehood" as he was elected as the first member of the United States Senate from Arkansas. His main decisions: he voted to recognize the independence of Texas in 1837, for the treaty of annexation in 1844, and for the second joint resolution, which gave the president the choice of ...
Ambrose Hundley Sevier, speaker of the Arkansas territorial House of Representatives and one of the state’s first two U.S. senators; circa 1836. Sevier County was named for him. Courtesy of the Arkansas State Archives.
Ambrose Sevier was the first Senator from Arkansas. One of the dominant personalities in Arkansas politics, Sevier was serving as chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee when the Polk administration sent him to Mexico to oversee the final negotiations and signing of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo.
Ambrose Hundley Sevier in the United States Senate, 1836-1848 By BRIAN G. WALTON* Cullowh.ee, North Carolina jHlmbrose Hundley Sevier occupies a position of un-matched importance in the political history of pre-Civil War Arkansas. For the better part of two decades, from the early 1830's to his death at the very end of 1848, "Don Am-
