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General John Sevier
John Sevier served as a militia captain under George Washington in Lord Dunmore's War, a lieutenant colonel in the trans-Allegheny forces during the Revolution, and was commended for his services at Kings Mountain in 1780.
Sevier was elected the first governor of Tennessee (1796-1801 and 1803-1809), state senator (1809-1811), and a member of the U.S. House of Representatives in 1811. He died on 25 September 1815.