Abram Poindexter Maury

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Abram Poindexter Maury
Member of the
Meredith P. Gentry
Member of the Tennessee House of Representatives
In office
1831–1832
1843–1844
Personal details
BornDecember 26, 1801
Anti-Jacksonian
newspaper editor

lawyer

politician

Abram Poindexter Maury (

eighth district in the United States House of Representatives. He was a slaveholder.[1]

Biography

Maury was born near

St. Louis, Missouri, at the age of sixteen. He next entered the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York, in 1820. He left the following year to pursue the study of law and edit a newspaper in Nashville, Tennessee.[2]

In 1826, he married Mary Eliza Tennessee Claiborne (1806-1852), daughter of Sarah Terrell Lewis and Dr. Thomas Augustine Claiborne, whose family was politically well-connected in the South.[2] They had nine children together, naming the seventh Septima and the eighth Octavia.

His father, Abraham Poindexter Maury, Jr. was a member of the Tennessee Senate and is the namesake of Maury County, Tennessee.[3]

Career

Maury was a member of the Tennessee House of Representatives in 1831, 1832, 1843, and 1844. He was admitted to the bar in 1839 and practiced in Williamson County, Tennessee.

Elected as a

Twenty-fifth Congress, Maury served from March 4, 1835, to March 3, 1839.[4]
He was not a candidate for renomination in 1838.

Maury resumed the practice of law in Williamson County, Tennessee and also engaged in literary pursuits and lecturing. He served in the Tennessee Senate in 1845 and 1846.[5]

Death

Maury died near Franklin, Tennessee July 22, 1848 (age 46 years, 209 days) and was interred in the family cemetery at Founders Pointe near Franklin, Tennessee.[6]

References

  1. Washington Post
    . Retrieved 30 January 2022.
  2. ^ a b "Abram Poindexter Maury". William L. Clements Library University of Michigan. Retrieved 1 March 2013.
  3. ^ Gannett, Henry (1905). The Origin of Certain Place Names in the United States. U.S. Government Printing Office. p. 203.
  4. ^ "Abram Poindexter Maury". Govtrack US Congress. Retrieved 1 March 2013.
  5. ^ "Abram Poindexter Maury". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. Retrieved 1 March 2013.
  6. ^ "Abram Poindexter Maury". The Political Graveyard. Retrieved 1 March 2013.

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U.S. House of Representatives
Preceded by Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from Tennessee's 8th congressional district
1835-1839 		Succeeded by
Meredith P. Gentry
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