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SEBASTIAN, William King, senator, born in Vernon, Tennessee, in 1814; died in Memphis, Tennessee, 20 May, 1865. He was graduated at Columbia college, Tennessee, studied law, was admitted to the bar, and practised his profession at Helena, Arkansas He was prosecuting attorney in 1835-'7, circuit judge in 1840-'2, and in the latter year was appointed a judge of the state supreme court. He was president of the state senate in 1846, a presidential elector in 1848, and was elected a United States senator from Arkansas as a Democrat in place of Chester Ashley, deceased, serving from 1847 till 1853. He was re-elected for the term that ended in 1859, and in the latter year was chosen again for another full term. He was chairman of the committee on Indian affairs, and a member of the committee on territories. Mr. Sebastian was expelled for disloyalty on 11 July, 1861. but it was afterward claimed that he was loyal, and the senate revoked the resolution of expulsion and paid his full salary to his children. He remained quietly at Helena until the National troops occupied that place, and in 1864 removed to Memphis, Tennessee
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