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WHITTHORNE, Washington Curran, senator, born in Lincoln (now Marshall) county, Tennessee, 19 April, 1825. He was graduated at East Tennessee university in 1843, studied law, and was licensed to practise. He was a member of the state senate in 1855-'8, and of the Tennessee house of representatives in 1859-'61. Mr. Whitthorne was on the Democratic electoral ticket in 1860, and delegate to the Baltimore convention. At the opening of the civil war he became assistant adjutant-general to General Samuel R. Anderson's Tennessee brigade in the Confederate army, and served throughout the western Virginia campaign. He was adjutant-general of the state of Tennessee in 1862-'5, and was in the various campaigns of the Confederate army of Tennessee as aide on the staffs of General Samuel g. Anderson, General Marcus J. Wright, General John C. Carter, and General William J. Hardee. He was elected representative in congress from Tennessee in 1870, and served by re-election till 1883. He was appointed to the United States senate as a Democrat to fill the vacancy occasioned by the resignation of Howell E. Jackson, took his seat, 26 April, 1886, and was afterward elected to fill out the unexpired term. He had previously been elected to the house of representatives :for the 50th congress. In the house Mr. Whitthorne was for six years chairman of the committee on naval affairs.
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