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Howell Tatum

Howell Tatum

American judge (died 1822)

Howell Tatum (died 1822) was a justice of the Tennessee Supreme Court from 1797 to 1798.

Born in North Carolina,[1] Tatum was a soldier in the American Revolutionary War,[2] serving as an ensign in the First North Carolina Regiment, Continental Line, in 1775.[1]

He moved to Tennessee in the late 1780s or early 1790s, settling in the Metro District, which comprised Davidson, Sumner and Tennessee Counties.[1] He served as treasurer of the district from 1794 to 1796, and was then Attorney General for the district from 1796 to 1797.[1][2] He was appointed to the state supreme court in 1797, resigning the following year.[2] He was a topographical engineer in the War of 1812.[2]

Tatum was interred with full military honors on September 9, 1822.[3]

References

  1. [1]
    C.A. Snodgrass, The History of Freemasonry in Tennessee 1789-1943 (1944), p. 438.
  2. [2]
    Tennessee Supreme Court Historical Society. "Justices".
  3. [3]
    "Died", Knoxville Intelligencer (September 17, 1822), p. 3.
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