United States Attorney for the District of Tennessee is a defunct United States Attorney's office that served the Southwest Territory and then the state of Tennessee until 1803. The U.S. Attorney for Tennessee was the chief law enforcement officer for the United States District Court for the District of Tennessee. The district was succeeded by the United States Attorney for the Western District of Tennessee and the United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Tennessee.[1]
Office holders
edit- Andrew Jackson (1790–1797) – other accounts suggest this designation is spurious and Jackson was merely a government attorney for a circuit of North Carolina known as the Mero District (in present-day Tennessee)[2]
- Thomas Gray (1797–1798)
- William P. Anderson (1798–1802)
- Thomas Stuart (1802–1803)
References
edit- ^ Executive Office for United States Attorneys (1989). Bicentennial Celebration of United States Attorneys, 1789–1989 (PDF) (Report). Washington, District of Columbia: United States Department of Justice. Retrieved 2023-06-19.
- ^ Mero District - Charles A. Sherrill - Tennessee Encyclopedia http://tennesseeencyclopedia.net/entries/mero-district/ Tennessee Historical Society March 1, 2018
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