Andrew Jackson Clements
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Andrew Jackson Clements (December 23, 1832–November 7, 1913), 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, son of Christopher Clements and Polly Fraim and grandson of John Clemans (Revolutionary War Veteran) and Eilzabeth Eagle. 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. His first wife died young and he later married Matilda Harlan by whom he had four children: Carlos, Fred, Carolyn, and Mollie. He died in Glasgow, Kentucky in Barren County, and was interred in Glasgow Cemetery.
