Dewitt Clinton Senter
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Dewitt Clinton Senter was an American politician who served as the 18th governor of Tennessee from 1869 to 1871. He had previously served in the Tennessee House of Representatives, where he opposed se
Portrait of Governor De Witt C. Senter
Senter’s grave in Morristown, Tennessee.
East Tennessee Convention
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The East Tennessee Convention was an assembly of Southern Unionist delegates primarily from East Tennessee that met on three occasions during the Civil War. The convention most notably declared the se
Dewitt Clinton Senter
…of Secession, and canvassed in East Tennessee in an attempt to rally the region's Unionists. He was a member of the Grainger County delegation at the East Tennessee Convention, which sought to form a separate, Union-aligned state in East Tennessee. In 1862, Senter was arrested and jailed for several months by Confederate…
East Tennessee Convention Proceedings title page
James G. Spears (vice president)
The old Greene County Courthouse in Greeneville, where the East Tennessee Convention met in June 1861
Tennessee Historical Commission marker in Greeneville, recalling the East Tennessee Convention's June 1861 session