biography
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| lived:
| (1785–1845)
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| biography:
| US representative and senator, born in Stokes Co, North Carolina, USA. A lawyer, congressman (Democrat, Alabama, 1821–9), and governor (1829–31), he began the Muscle Shoals Canal and the state university before going to the Senate (1831–5). |
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