Willie Blount

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Willie Blount was an early 19th-century American politician who served as governor of Tennessee and was influential enough that multiple U.S. counties were named in his honor.

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instanceOf American politician
governor
human
burialPlace Nashville City Cemetery
causeOfDeath illness
countryOfCitizenship United States of America
dateOfBirth 1768-04-18
dateOfDeath 1835-09-10
educatedAt Columbia College
linked to: Columbia University

New Jersey College
Queen’s College, New Jersey
ethnicGroup English Americans
linked to: English American
familyName Blount
fieldOfWork law
public administration
genreOfPoliticalActivity state politics
givenName Willie
honorificTitle His Excellency
livedIn Blount Mansion (Knoxville, Tennessee)
memberOfPoliticalParty Democratic-Republican Party
namesakeOf Blount County, Alabama
Blount County, Tennessee
notableFor being namesake of multiple U.S. counties
service as governor of Tennessee during the War of 1812
notableWork mobilization of Tennessee militia during the War of 1812
occupation lawyer
planter
officeEndTime 1815
officeStartTime 1809
participatedIn War of 1812
placeOfBirth Bertie County, North Carolina
placeOfDeath Nashville, Tennessee
linked to: Nashville
politicalIdeology Jeffersonian republicanism
linked to: Republicanism
positionHeld Governor of Tennessee
precededBy John Sevier
relative John Gray Blount
Thomas Blount
religion Presbyterianism
residence Nashville, Tennessee
linked to: Nashville

Tennessee
sibling William Blount
significantEvent managed Tennessee’s war effort during the Creek War
stateRepresented Tennessee
succeededBy Joseph McMinn

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Blount County, Alabama namedAfter Willie Blount
Blount County namedAfter Willie Blount