USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -John Sevier, byname Nolichucky Jack, (born September 23, 1745, New Market, Virginia [U.S.]-died September 24, 1815, Fort Decatur, Mississippi Territory [now in Alabama, U.S.]), American frontiersman, soldier, and first governor of the state of Tennessee.

Detailed explanation-2: -John Sevier, 1796-1801; 1803-1809, Democrat. He was elected governor of the state of Franklin at the end of the Revolutionary War, and as such became the first governor in what would be Tennessee. When statehood was attained in 1796, Sevier was elected its first governor.

Detailed explanation-3: -Despite North Carolina’s opposition to the move-which at one point included Sevier’s arrest-the territory won statehood as Tennessee in 1796.] He served in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1789 until 1791. He was unanimously elected in convention as Tennessee’s first Governor and inaugurated in March, 1796.

Detailed explanation-4: -Though it only lasted from 1784 to 1788, the State of Franklin gave rise to a number of important figures in Tennessee and U.S. history including John Sevier, the first governor of both the State of Franklin and Tennessee, the frontiersman and statesman David Crockett, and General James White, the founder of Knoxville.

Detailed explanation-5: -John Sevier, pioneer, soldier, statesman and a founder of the Republic, was Tennessee’s first governor and one of its most illustrious citizens. Married and on his own at age sixteen, he was in the vanguard of frontier life and accomplishment from his late teenage years until his death.