John Overton (judge)
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John Overton was an American planter and slave trader, a judge at the Tennessee Supreme Court, a banker, political leader, and an advisor of Andrew Jackson. He was described in 1889 as having been the
Judge John Overton
Overton advertised his services as a lawyer in the Nashville Republican Banner in 1822
Travelers Rest, his plantation home in Nashville
Thomas Overton
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Thomas Overton was an American military and political leader, best known for having been the second to Andrew Jackson in his duel with Charles Dickinson in 1806.
John Overton (judge)
…elected to succeed his friend Andrew Jackson as a member of the Tennessee Supreme Court in 1804, where he served as a judge until 1810. His elder brother Thomas Overton served as Jackson's second in his duel with Charles Dickinson. In 1819, he founded Memphis, Tennessee on land he owned with Andrew Jackson and James…
General Overton, c. 1812