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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.
Nov 1, 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.
Ambrose H. Sevier, who labored long to bring about statehood. Sevier was born in Green county, Tennessee, November 4, 1801. He received a liberal education in his native county and when about nineteen came to Arkansas, locating at Little Rock. His political career began in 1821, when he served as clerk of the territorial house of repre-sentatives.
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 H. Sevier was a territorial legislator and U.S. Senator from Arkansas. Sevier descended from a French Huguenot family that supported the George Washington in the Revolutionary War. A branch of the family, from which Ambrose Sevier descended, moved to Tennessee around the time of the war.
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-
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.
