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John H. Eaton
US Senate - Youngest
28 years, 5 months (contrary to the Constitution's minimum age requirement of 30 years, he was sworn in on November 16, 1818)
Years of Service: 1818-1823; 1823-1825;
1825-1829 Party: Republican; Jackson Republican;
Jacksonian
EATON, John Henry, a Senator from
Tennessee; born near Scotland Neck, Halifax County, N.C., June 18, 1790;
attended the common schools and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
in 1803 and 1804; studied law; was admitted to the bar and commenced practice in
Franklin, Tenn.; member, State house of representatives 1815-1816; appointed in
1818 and subsequently elected as a Republican to the United States Senate to
fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of George W. Campbell and served from
September 5, 1818, to March 3, 1821; elected to the Senate in September 1821,
and again in 1826 and served from September 27, 1821, until March 9, 1829, when
he resigned to accept a Cabinet position; chairman, Committee on District of
Columbia (Twentieth Congress); appointed Secretary of War by President Andrew
Jackson and served from 1829 to 1831, when he resigned; Governor, Territory of
Florida 1834-1836; Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Spain
1836-1840; died in Washington, D.C., November 17, 1856; interment in Oak Hill
Cemetery.
Bibliography
Dictionary of American Biography; Eaton, John Henry. The Life of
Andrew Jackson. 1817. Reprint. University, AL: University of Alabama Press,
1974; Lawrence, Frank, ed. The Life of Andrew Jackson, John Reid, and John
Eaton. University, AL: University of Alabama Press, 1974.
-- Biographical
Data courtesy of the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress
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