Preceded by John Ford House Name Andrew Caldwell Citizenship United States Role U.S. representative | Political party Democratic Alma mater Tennessee Resigned March 4, 1887 Profession Attorney
planter Party Democratic Party | |
Born July 22, 1837
Montevallo, Alabama ( 1837-07-22 ) Spouse(s) Martha Hinton Phillips Caldwell Children Robert Caldwell Maggie May Caldwell
Samuel Shackleford Caldwell
Andrew Jackson Caldwell
Roberta Caldwell Allen
Whorter Young Caldwell
May Phillip Caldwell Died November 22, 1906, Nashville, Tennessee, United States | ||
Succeeded by Joseph E. Washington Battles and wars American Civil War | ||
Andrew Jackson Caldwell (July 22, 1837 – November 22, 1906) was a U.S. Representative from Tennessee.
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Biography
Andrew Jackson Caldwell was born in Montevallo, Alabama on July 22, 1837. He moved with his parents to Tennessee in 1844, settling near Nashville. He graduated from Franklin College, Tennessee, in 1854, and worked as a teacher in Nashville from 1854 to 1857. He then moved to Trenton to study law.
Career
During the Civil War, Caldwell served in the Confederate States Army as a private and regimental quartermaster in the First Regiment, Tennessee Cavalry. After the war, he resumed his law studies and was admitted to the Tennessee bar in 1867. He returned to Nashville, to open a practice in law. He became attorney general for the district of Davidson and Rutherford Counties, Tennessee, serving in this capacity from 1870 to 1878. He also served as a member of the Tennessee House of Representatives in 1880 and 1882.
Caldwell was elected as a Democrat to the Forty-eighth and Forty-ninth Congresses (March 4, 1883 – March 3, 1887). He was not a candidate for reelection to the Fiftieth Congress, and resumed the practice of law.
Death
Andrew Jackson Caldwell died in Nashville on November 22, 1906, (age 69 years, 123 days), and is interred at Mount Olivet Cemetery.