Andrew Jackson Clements

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Andrew Jackson Clements was an American politician and a member of the United States House of Representatives for the 3rd congressional district of Tennessee. He was born in Clementsville, Tennessee in Clay County on December 23, 1832. He attended a private school and Burritt College at Spencer, Tennessee, studied medicine, and commenced practice in Lafayette, Tennessee. During the Civil War, he was a surgeon with the First Regiment, Tennessee Mounted Volunteer Infantry.

He was elected as a Unionist to the Thirty-seventh Congress. He served from March 4, 1861 to March 3, 1863. He was a member of the Tennessee House of Representatives in 1866 and 1867. He resumed the practice of his profession and established a school on his estate for the people of that section of the Cumberland highlands. He died in Glasgow, Kentucky in Barren County on November 7, 1913. He was interred in Glasgow Cemetery.

This article incorporates facts obtained from the public domain Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.