John Sevier
Soldier, frontiersman and politician (1745-1815) · United States · On the map · Politicians · Died at 70
John Sevier was an American soldier, frontiersman, and politician, and one of the founding fathers of Tennessee. A member of the Democratic-Republican Party, he played a leading role in Tennessee's pre-statehood period, both militarily and politically, and he was elected the state's first governor in 1796.
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Sketch in Goodpasture's History of Tennessee (1903), showing Sevier pulling Catherine Sherrill to safety during the Cherokee assault on Fort Watauga
Howard Pyle drawing in an 1885 edition of Harper's Magazine, showing a romanticized account of Sevier's 1788 escape from North Carolina (he was never tried by the state)
Newspaper page printing John Sevier’s January 12, 1789 report of the Battle of Flint Creek (published May 2, 1789).
Portrait of Sevier by Washington B. Cooper
Sevier's pistol on display at the East Tennessee History Center in Knoxville
1889 photograph of Sevier's original grave at Fort Decatur, with Governor Taylor located on left corner of fence and Alabama governor Thomas Seay located on right corner of fence
Statue of Sevier in the National Statuary Hall CollectionAbout this person
He served as a colonel of the Washington District Regiment in the Battle of Kings Mountain in 1780, and he commanded the frontier militia in dozens of battles against the Cherokee in the 1780s and 1790s.
