Clemens, Jeremiah

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    Full name
    Jeremiah Clemens
    Place of Birth
    Burial Place
    Birth Date Certainty
    Exact
    Death Date Certainty
    Exact
    Gender
    Male
    Race
    White
    Sectional choice
    South
    Origins
    Slave State
    Education
    Transylvania
    Other
    Other Education
    La Grange College; University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa
    Occupation
    Politician
    Military
    Attorney or Judge
    Journalist
    Political Parties
    Democratic
    Government
    Van Buren Administration (1837-41)
    US Senate
    State legislature
    Military
    US military (Pre-Civil War)

    Jeremiah Clemens (Congressional Biographical Directory)

    Reference
    CLEMENS, Jeremiah, a Senator from Alabama; born in Huntsville, Ala., December 28, 1814; attended La Grange College and was graduated from the University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa in 1833; studied law at Transylvania University, Lexington, Ky.; was admitted to the bar in 1834 and practiced in Huntsville; appointed United States district attorney for the northern district of Alabama in 1838; member, State house of representatives 1839-1841; raised a company of riflemen in 1842 and served in the Texas War of Independence; member, State house of representatives 1843-1844; served in the United States Army during the Mexican War, attained the rank of lieutenant colonel; unsuccessful candidate for election in 1848 to the Thirty-first Congress; elected as a Democrat to the United States Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Dixon H. Lewis and served from November 30, 1849, to March 3, 1853; novelist; moved to Memphis, Tenn., in 1858 and became editor of the Memphis Eagle and Enquirer in 1859; returned to Alabama; delegate to the convention in 1861 in which Alabama voted to secede from the Union; held office under the Confederacy, but became a strong Union supporter in 1864; died in Huntsville, Madison County, Ala., May 21, 1865; interment in Maple Hill Cemetery.
    "Clemens, Jeremiah," Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1774 to Present, http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=C000501.
    Chicago Style Entry Link
    Martin, John. ‘The Senatorial Career of Jeremiah Clemens, 1849-1853.’ Alabama Historical Quarterly 43 (Fall 1981): 186-235. view record
    How to Cite This Page: "Clemens, Jeremiah," House Divided: The Civil War Research Engine at Dickinson College, https://hd.housedivided.dickinson.edu/index.php/node/12214.