Hopkins L. Turney
Hopkins Lacy Turney | |
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United States Senator from Tennessee | |
In office March 4, 1845 – March 3, 1851 | |
Preceded by | Ephraim H. Foster |
Succeeded by | James C. Jones |
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Tennessee's 5th district | |
In office March 4, 1837 – March 3, 1843 | |
Preceded by | John B. Forester |
Succeeded by | George W. Jones |
Member of the Tennessee House of Representatives | |
In office 1828 | |
Personal details | |
Born | Smith County, Tennessee, U.S. | October 3, 1797
Died | August 1, 1857 Winchester, Tennessee, U.S. | (aged 59)
Political party | Democratic |
Profession | Politician, Lawyer |
Hopkins Lacy Turney (October 3, 1797 – August 1, 1857) was a Democratic U.S. Representative and United States Senator from Tennessee.
Biography
[edit]Turney was born in the Smith County settlement of Dixon Springs, Tennessee. As a youth, he was apprenticed to a tailor. He served in the Seminole War in 1818. Subsequent to this he studied law, and passed the bar examination and began a practice in Jasper, Tennessee. Later he moved to Winchester, Tennessee, continuing the practice of law. He owned slaves.[1] He was first elected to the Tennessee House of Representatives in 1828.
He married Teresa Francis, the daughter of Miller Francis and Hannah Henry, in 1826. She was born December 9, 1809, and died September 5, 1879. Hopkins and Teresa were the parents of nine children.
Their son Peter Turney (September 22, 1827 – October 19, 1903) was Chief Justice of the Tennessee Supreme Court from 1870 to 1893; and served as governor of the U.S. state of Tennessee from 1893 to 1897.[2]
He was then elected to the U.S. House, serving three terms in that body from 1837 to 1843, the 25th through 27th Congresses. Subsequent to this he was elected by the Tennessee General Assembly to the U.S. Senate, returning to Washington, D.C., after a two-year hiatus and serving one six-year term in that body, where he was chairman of the U.S. Senate Committee on Retrenchment for four years and the U.S. Senate Committee on Patents and the Patent Office for two before returning to his law practice, which he engaged in until shortly before his death. He is buried in Winchester.
Notes
[edit]- ^ "Congress slaveowners", The Washington Post, 2022-01-19, retrieved 2022-07-08
- ^ "Death List Of The Day - Peter Turney". New York Times. October 20, 1903. Retrieved 2011-12-02.
External links
[edit]- United States Congress. "Hopkins L. Turney (id: T000430)". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.
- Hopkins L. Turney at Find a Grave
- 1797 births
- 1857 deaths
- People from Smith County, Tennessee
- American people of Swiss-German descent
- Democratic Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Tennessee
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- 19th-century American lawyers
- American people of the Seminole Wars
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