Luke Lea
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- Luke Lea (1783–1851)Luke Lea (1783–1851)Luke Lea was a two-term United States Representative from Tennessee.Lea was born in Surry County, North Carolina and moved with his parents in 1790 into what would become Hawkins County, Tennessee. As a young man he was a clerk for the Tennessee House of Representatives...
, U.S. Representative from Tennessee, 1833–1837 - Luke Lea (1879–1945)Luke Lea (1879–1945)Luke Lea was a Democratic United States Senator from Tennessee from 1911 to 1917.-Biography:Lea was the great-grandson of an earlier Luke Lea who was a two-term Congressman from Tennessee in the 1830s...
, U.S. Senator from Tennessee, 1911–1917; founder of The Tennessean newspaper - Luke Lea, Commissioner of Indian Affairs 1850-1853