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About Hugh Lawson White
Hugh Lawson White was an American politician and judge. After filling in several posts particularly in Tennessee's judiciary and state legislature since 1801, thereunder as a Tennessee Supreme Court justice, he was chosen to succeed Andrew Jackson in the United States Senate in 1825. He became a member of the new Democratic Party, supporting Jackson's policies and his future presidential administration. However, he left the Democrats in 1836 and was a Whig candidate in that year's presidential election.
Everything about Hugh Lawson White →- Occupation
- politician, lawyer, judge
- Position held
- member of the State Senate of Tennessee, President pro tempore of the United States Senate, United States senator, United States senator
- Citizenship
- United States
- Born
- October 30, 1773
- Died
- April 10, 1840