William Blount was an American politician, landowner and Founding Father who was one of the signers of the Constitution of the United States. He was a member of the North Carolina delegation at the Co
Portrait by Washington Bogart Cooper, 1850
Blount Hall, childhood home of William Blount
Scene at the Signing of the Constitution of the United States, a 1940 painting by Howard Chandler Christy
Andrew Jackson was the seventh president of the United States from 1829 to 1837. He rose to fame as a U.S. Army general and served in both houses of the U.S. Congress. His political philosophy, which
William Blount
…included Joseph Hardin, William Cage, James White, Dr. James White and Francis Alexander Ramsey. Others receiving appointments included future president Andrew Jackson, future governor Archibald Roane and naval officer George Farragut. Blount hired his half-brother, Willie Blount, as a personal secretary and recruited…
The Brave Boy of the Waxhaws, an 1876 Currier and Ives lithograph depicting the story of a young Andrew Jackson defending himself from a British officer during the American Revolutionary War
An 1846 wood engraving by William Croome depicting Jackson's marriage to Rachel Donelson in the 1847 Pictorial History of Andrew Jackson by John Frost
Tennessee c. 1810. The eastern counties shaded in blue, the Mero District in green, and Native American lands in red. The Natchez Trace from its northern terminus to Chickasaw Crossing where it leaves the state is shaded in gray.