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Pryor Lea
Pryor Lea (August 31, 1794 – September 14, 1879) was an American politician and railroad entrepreneur who represented Tennessee's 2nd district in the United States House of Representatives from 1827 to 1831. He moved to Goliad, Texas, in the 1840s, where he engaged in railroad construction, and served in the Texas Senate. He was a delegate to the 1861 Texas convention that adopted the state's Ordinance of Secession on the eve of the Civil War.
==Early life==
Lea was born in what is now Grainger County, Tennessee, but was then part of Knox County, the son of Major Lea and Lavinia (Jarnagin) Lea.〔Mary Rothrock (ed.), ''The French Broad-Holston Country: A History of Knox County, Tennessee'' (Knoxville, Tenn.: East Tennessee Historical Society, 1972), pp. 439-440.〕〔Alethia Belcher, "(Estate Retains Colonial Atmosphere )," Morristown ''Citizen Tribune''. Photo copy retrieved at Rootsweb.com 22 February 2013.〕 He attended the former Greeneville College (now Tusculum College), after which he studied law. He fought in the Creek War as a major under Andrew Jackson in 1813, and clerked for the Tennessee House of Representatives in 1816.〔 He was admitted to the bar in 1817, and began practicing in Knoxville. He married Maria Kennedy on October 6, 1818. They had four children, Abraham, Julia, Centhia, and James Kennedy. His second marriage was to Minerva Heard, and his third was to Mary Perkins.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=caswellcounty&id=I54878 )〕
Lea was appointed to the Board of Trustees of East Tennessee College (the forerunner of the University of Tennessee) in 1821, and later served as the board's secretary.〔Rossiter Johnson and John Howard Brown, ''(The Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans )'' (Biographical Society, 1904). Retrieved: 22 February 2013.〕 That same year, he was appointed United States Attorney for Eastern Tennessee.〔''(The Bicentennial Celebration of the United States )'', U.S. Department of Justice Document Set 16, 1994. Retrieved: 1 February 2013.〕
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