William Blount - Signers Of The U.S. Constitution
by Lyle Tayson
Title
William Blount - Signers Of The U.S. Constitution
Artist
Lyle Tayson
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Painting - Watercolor On Cold Press Illustration Board
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William Blount was the first man ever expelled from the U.S Senate. He was born on Easter Sunday in 1749 in North Carolina, where he grew up without benefit of much formal education. With the coming of the Revolutionary War, he enlisted asa paymaster in the North Carolina forces. Blount went on to spend much of his life in public office. He sat in both the lower and upper house of the North Carolina legislature, and served in the Continental Congress in 1782 and 1786. He was also elected to attend the Constitutional Convention in 1787. He signed the Constitution, explaining that his signature did not mean that he approved of it, but merely showed he had been present. In 1790, Blount pushed westward and settled in what became Tennessee. Washington appointed Blount as Governor of the Territory of the United States South of the River Ohio and also as Superintendent of Indian Affairs for the Southern Department. In 1796, he presided over a constitutional convention that transformed part of the Territory into the State of Tennessee, and was elected as one of its first U.S. Senators. In 1797, he concocted a plan to conquer for Britain the Spanish provinces of Florida and Louisiana. A letter he wrote alluding to the plan fell into the hands of President Adams, who turned it over to the Senate. Blount was expelled, and he died two years later at Knoxville.
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