| 11 February 1786 |
Born in Charlotte County, Virginia
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| 6 July 1810 |
Serves as a juror in Knox County,
Tennessee Court in the case of Long & Booth v. James
Miller
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| 14 May 1811 |
Allowed to practice law in White
County, Tennessee
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| 6 January 1812 |
Granted guardianship of his
illegitimate daughter, Melinda Jane Witt, by the Knox County
Court
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| 1812-1815 |
War of 1812
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| 9 October 1812 |
Adopts Melinda Jane Witt as his
lawful daughter and changes her surname from Witt to Huntsman
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| 6 September 1813 |
Appointed solicitor for White
County, Tennessee
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| 2 April 1814 |
Father-in-law William Pennington
Quarles murdered on the road to his home "White
Plains" in Overton (now Putnam) County, Tennessee
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| 17 July 1815 |
Resigns as solicitor for White
County
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| 3 and 4 August 1815 |
Elected to his first term as
Tennessee state senator representing Overton, White, and
Jackson counties
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| 18 September 1815 |
First session of the eleventh
General Assembly convenes at the Davidson County Courthouse in
Nashville, Tennessee
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| August 1817 |
Re-elected to the state senate
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| 15 September 1817 |
First session of the twelfth
General Assembly convenes in Knoxville, Tennessee
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| 25 November 1817 |
Resigns as state senator to be a
candidate for solicitor of the Fifth Judicial Circuit
Loses election the same day in the General Assembly to
Thomas Jefferson Campbell
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| August 1819 |
Elected to a third term as state
senator
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| 20 March 1820 |
Becomes a charter member of Lodge
No. 32 in Sparta (White County), Tennessee
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| 3 October 1820 |
Announces himself a candidate for
presidential elector representing Overton, White, Jackson,
Warren, Franklin, Hamilton, Marion, Bledsoe, and Rhea
counties. He later loses the election.
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| 16 November 1821 |
Appointed as one of eight
commissioners for Madison County, Tennessee in the Western
District
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| 1823 (Winter or Spring) |
Moves to Cotton Grove community
east of Jackson, Tennessee
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| 22 April 1823 |
Takes oath to practice law in
Madison County
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| 9 September 1823 |
Advertises his law practice in
Jackson's first newspaper, the Pioneer
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| 1824 (Spring) |
Partners with William Stoddert in
joint law practice in Jackson
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| 10 September 1825 |
General Andrew Jackson and his wife
Rachel visit Jackson and stay for the next three weeks.
Huntsman is a member of the welcome committee.
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| October 1825 |
Wife Sarah Wesley Quarles Huntsman
dies near Jackson and is buried at Salem Cemetery
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| 12 December 1825 |
Given permission with
neighbor Roderick McIver by the Madison County Court to build
a mill on Butler's Creek (present-day Jones Creek) in the
Cotton Grove community
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| 25 November 1826 |
Appointed one of six
"Commissioners of Navigation" to improve navigation
of the Forked Deer River
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| 6 August 1835 |
Defeats David Crockett for the
Twelfth Congressional District of Tennessee by 252 votes,
4,652 to 4,400.
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| 23 August 1849 |
Dies at his home near Jackson,
Tennessee
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