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Luke Lea (American politician, born 1783)

American politician (1783–1851)

Field	Value
name	Luke Lea
office1	Secretary of State of Tennessee
term_start1	1837
term_end1	1839
governor1	Newton Cannon
preceded1	Samuel G. Smith
succeeded1	John S. Young
district2	3rd
state2	Tennessee
term_start2	March 4, 1833
term_end2	March 3, 1837
predecessor2	James I. Standifer
successor2	Joseph L. Williams
party	Jacksonian Democrat
Whig
Anti-Jacksonian
birth_date
birth_place	Surry County, North Carolina, US
death_date
death_place	Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, US
spouse	Susan Wells McCormick Lea
children	James Armstrong Lea
John McCormick Lea
Francis Wells Lea
William Park Lea
Ann R. Lea
Susan Jane Lea
Lavinia Lea
Margaret Lea
Luke Lea, Jr.

Whig Anti-Jacksonian John McCormick Lea Francis Wells Lea William Park Lea Ann R. Lea Susan Jane Lea Lavinia Lea Margaret Lea Luke Lea, Jr.

Luke Lea (January 21, 1783 – June 17, 1851) was a two-term United States Representative from Tennessee.

Biography

Lea was born in Surry County, North Carolina, the son of the Reverend Luke and Elisabeth Wilson Lea. He moved with his parents in 1790 into what would become Hawkins County, Tennessee. He attended the common school, and as a young man he was a clerk for the Tennessee House of Representatives from 1804 to 1806. He married Susan Wells McCormick on February 28, 1816, and they had nine children. He was also the great-grandfather of Luke Lea, founder of the Nashville Tennessean newspaper and a U.S. Senator from Tennessee from 1911 to 1917. He owned slaves.

Career

After commanding a regiment under General Andrew Jackson in the Seminole and Creek War of 1818, Lee then moved to Campbells Station, Knox County, Tennessee. He was elected as a Jacksonian to the 23rd Congress and re-elected as an Anti-Jacksonian to the 24th Congress. He served from March 4, 1833, to March 3, 1837.

He changed parties for his second term from Jacksonian to National Republican. He then served as Tennessee Secretary of State from 1837 to 1839.

On September 9, 1850, Lea was appointed Indian agent by President Millard Fillmore for Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, and served in that capacity some sources say until his death the following year. Other sources show he continued to live in the District of Columbia and later returned to Mississippi and died in Vicksburg in 1898.

Death

Thrown from his horse on his way back to his residence near Fort Leavenworth, Lea died on June 17, 1851, at age 68. He was first interred at Westport Cemetery, Kansas City, Missouri; and is finally interred at Union Cemetery, Kansas City.

Lea was the brother of Pryor Lea, a two-term Tennessee Congressman (1827–31), who was later a Texas state senator and a prominent Confederate supporter in Texas.

References

"Luke Lea". Ancestry.com.
(2022-01-13). "Congress slaveowners". The Washington Post.
"Luke Lea". Govtrack US Congress.
(1839-12-19). "Secretary of State – Executive Usurpation". Hiwassee Patriot.
"Luke Lea". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.
DeJong, David H. [http://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctv2cw0sp9.20 "Luke Lea: Commissioner of Indian Affairs (July 1, 1850–March 24, 1853)."] Paternalism to Partnership: The Administration of Indian Affairs, 1786–2021, University of Nebraska Press, 2021, pp. 80–85. JSTOR. Accessed April 15, 2023. {{Open access
[https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/LWC8-54Q Luke Lea genealogy]. Familysearch.org website Retrieved April 15, 2023.
"Luke Lea". The Political Graveyard.
"Leo, Pryor".

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