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Luke Lea (American politician, born 1783)

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Biography
Career
Death
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|office1 = Secretary of State of Tennessee
|term_start1 = 1837
|term_end1 = 1839
|preceded1 = Samuel G. Smith
|succeeded1 = John S. Young
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|district2 = 3rd
|state2 = Tennessee
|term_start2 = March 4, 1833
|term_end2 = March 3, 1837
|predecessor2 = James I. Standifer
|successor2 = Joseph L. Williams
|party = Jacksonian DemocratWhig Anti-Jacksonian
|birth_date = January 21, 1783
|birth_place = Surry County, North Carolina
|death_date = June 17, 1851 (aged 68)
|death_place = Fort Leavenworth, Kansas
|spouse = Susan Wells McCormick Lea
|children = James Armstrong Lea
John McCormick Lea
Francis Wells Lea
William Park Lea
Ann R. Lea
Susan Jane Lea
Lavinia Lea
Margaret Lea
Luke Lea, Jr.
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Luke Lea (January 21, 1783 – June 17, 1851) was a two-term United States Representative from Tennessee.

Biography

Lea was born in Surry County, North Carolina, the son of the Reverend Luke and Elisabeth Wilson Lea. He moved with his parents in 1790 into what would become Hawkins County, Tennessee. He attended the common school, and as a young man he was a clerk for the Tennessee House of Representatives from 1804-06. He married Susan Wells McCormick on February 28, 1816, and they had nine children. He was also the great-grandfather of Luke Lea, founder of the Nashville Tennessean newspaper and a U.S. Senator from Tennessee from 1911-17.^[1]

Career

After commanding a regiment under General Andrew Jackson in the Seminole and Creek War of 1818, Lee then moved to Campbells Station, Tennessee, in Knox County. He was elected as a Jacksonian to the 23rd Congress and re-elected as an Anti-Jacksonian to the 24th Congress. He served from March 4, 1833 to March 3, 1837.^[2]

He changed parties for his second term from Democratic to Whig. He then served as Tennessee Secretary of State from 1837-39.{{cn|date=May 2017}}

On September 9, 1850, Lea was appointed Indian agent by President Millard Fillmore for Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, and served in that capacity until his death the following year.^[3]

Death

Thrown from his horse on his way back to his residence near Fort Leavenworth, Lea died on June 17, 1851 at age 68. He was first interred at Westport Cemetery, Kansas City, Missouri; and is finally interred at Union Cemetery, Kansas City.^[4] Lea was the brother of Pryor Lea, a two-term Tennessee Congressman (1827-31), who was later a Texas state senator and a prominent Confederate supporter in Texas.{{cn|date=May 2017}}

References

1. ^{{cite web|title=Luke Lea|url=http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=caswellcounty&id=I54870|publisher=Ancestry.com|accessdate=February 27, 2013}}
2. ^{{cite web|title=Luke Lea|url=http://www.govtrack.us/congress/members/luke_lea/406668|publisher=Govtrack US Congress|accessdate=February 27, 2013}}
3. ^{{cite web|title=Luke Lea|url=http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=L000164|publisher=Biographical Directory of the United States Congress|accessdate=February 27, 2013}}
4. ^{{cite web|title=Luke Lea|url=http://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10808.html|publisher=The Political Graveyard|accessdate=February 27, 2013}}

External links

{{Find a Grave|7875369}}

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