... of Florida, and there again he came into collision with the civil authority. From this, as from previous troubles, John Quincy Adams, then secretary of state, extricated him. In July 1822 the general assembly of Tennessee nominated Jackson for president;... The Encyclopaedia Britannica: Ita to Lor - Page 941911Full view - About this book
| Hugh Chisholm - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1911 - 1040 pages
...assembly of Tennessee nominated Jackson for president; and in 1823 he was elected to the United Stales Senate, from which he resigned in 1825. The rival...majority, and it thus became the duty of the House of Representatives to choose one of the three candidates— Adams, Jackson and Crawford — who had... | |
| Emilius Oviatt Randall, Daniel Joseph Ryan - Ohio - 1912 - 746 pages
...declined further nomination, preferring to go to the State Senate, which he did in 1819. In 1824 he was elected to the United States Senate, from which he resigned in 1828 to accept the position of Minister to Colombia tendered him by President John Quincy Adams. He... | |
| Lyon Gardiner Tyler - Virginia - 1915 - 446 pages
...difficulties with the Creek Indians, which he settled; and by the financial panic of 1837. In that yeaf he was elected to the United States Senate, from which he resigned in 1841 on account of the invalidism of his wife. Later he was appointed to make a digest of the laws... | |
| Allen Chamberlain - Beacon Hill (Boston, Mass.). - 1925 - 398 pages
...State Senate four terms. In 1814 he was a delegate to the maligned Hartford Convention, and in 1817 was elected to the United States Senate, from which he resigned in 1823. In 1829 he became Mayor of Boston. Mason died in 1831 aged seventy-nine years, and Otis in 1848,... | |
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