Jesse Wharton was an attorney

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 who briefly represented Tennessee

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 in each house of Congress

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Biography

Wharton was born in Albemarle County, Virginia

Albemarle County, Virginia

As of the census of 2000, there were 79,236 people, 31,876 households, and 21,070 families residing in the county. The population density was 110 people per square mile . There were 33,720 housing units at an average density of 47 per square mile...

 and studied law

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 and was admitted to the Virginia

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 bar

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. Moving to Tennessee, he was elected to the United States House of Representatives

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 from that state

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 in 1806, serving from 1807 to 1809. He was later appointed a United States Senator

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 upon the resignation of George W. Campbell

George W. Campbell

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, serving in that body from March 17, 1814 to October 10, 1815, and then returning to his law practice. In 1832 he was named to the Board of Visitors of the United States Military Academy

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. He died in Nashville, Tennessee

Nashville, Tennessee

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 the next year and is buried at Mount Olivet Cemetery.

(Some of the biographical detail in this article is derived from the public domain

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 Biographical Directory of the United States Congress

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. In turn, some of the material from that source is derived from the book Tennessee Senators as Seen by One of Their Successors by Senator Kenneth McKellar

Kenneth McKellar

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His grandson, Wharton Jackson Green was a U.S. Congressman from North Carolina.