John Wesley Crockett

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John Wesley Crockett was an American politician that represented Tennessee's twelfth district in the United States House of Representatives. He was born in Trenton, Tennessee on July 10, 1807. He attended the public schools, studied law, was admitted to the bar, and commenced practice in Paris, Tennessee. He held various local and state offices before being elected as a Whig to the Twenty-fifth and Twenty-sixth Congresses. He served from March 4, 1837 to March 3, 1841.

He was elected by the Tennessee General Assembly, the state legislature, to be the attorney general for the ninth district of Tennessee, and he served from 1841 to 1843. He moved to New Orleans in 1843 and engaged as a commission merchant. He became editor of the National on May 22, 1848 and established the Crescent in 1850. He moved to Memphis, Tennessee in 1852, where he died on November 24 later that year. He was interred in Old City Cemetery in Paris, Tennessee. His father, Davy Crockett, was a U.S. Representative for the same district he represented.

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