Samuel E. Hogg was an American

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 politician

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 and a member of the United States House of Representatives

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 that represented Tennessee

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 from 1817 to 1819. U.S. Congressional Delegations from Tennessee

Biography

Born in Halifax, North Carolina

Halifax, North Carolina

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, Hogg attended public schools in Caswell County

Caswell County, North Carolina

-Demographics:As of the census of 2000, there were 23,501 people, 8,670 households, and 6,398 families residing in the county. The population density was 55 people per square mile . There were 9,601 housing units at an average density of 23 per square mile...

 and taught for a while, before studying medicine

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 in Gallatin, Tennessee

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 around 1804. He subsequently moved to Lebanon County, Tennessee

Lebanon, Tennessee

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 and joined the army as a surgeon

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• First Regiment of Tennessee Volunteer Infantry from November 21, 1812 to April 22, 1813
• on the staff of Major General
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   Andrew Jackson
  Andrew Jackson
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   in the expedition against the Creek Indians from February 22 to May 25, 1814
• on the staff of Major General William Carroll from November 13, 1814 to May 13, 1815.

After three years of working as a surgeon in the army he was given a leave of absence after an encounter with death. He then came back to Tennessee where he worked as a waiter in a local diner for a few years before being elected.

Hogg was a member of the Tennessee House of Representatives and was elected as a Democratic-Republican to the Fifteenth Congress, which lasted from March 4, 1817 to March 3, 1819.

He went back into practicing medicine in Lebanon, Tennessee

Lebanon, Tennessee

Lebanon is a city in Wilson County, Tennessee, in the United States. The population was 20,235 at the 2000 census. It serves as the county seat of Wilson County. Lebanon is located in middle Tennessee, approximately 25 miles east of downtown Nashville. Local residents have also called it...

 until 1828, in Nashville

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 from 1828 to 1836, in Natchez

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 from 1836 to 1838, and again in Nashville from 1838 to 1840.

Hogg was president of the State Medical Society of Tennessee in 1840. He died in Rutherford County, Tennessee

Rutherford County, Tennessee

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 in 1842 at the age of 59, and was interred

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 at the Nashville City Cemetery

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