Member of the Tennessee House, 17th, 18th, and 19th General Assemblies, 1827-33; representing Greene County; SENATE, 21st General Assembly, 1835-37 (1st session only; replaced by Orville Bradley); representing Greene and Hawkins counties; Unionist. Born in Sevier County on July 12, 1792; son of Major Samuel and Jane (Laughlin) McGaughey. Farmer, near Greeneville, Greene County; trustee of Tusculum Academy, Greene County, 1818; orator, politician; one of the original directors and active in construction of the East, Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia Railroad. Married in Greene County on February 12, 1812, to Hannah Robinson; children — Richard W., Margaret (Mrs. Robert Rankin), Nancy L., and (apparently) William S. McGaughey. Member of Constitutional Convention of 1834; ensign in Blount County militia, 1811. Member Presbyterian Church. Died at his home near Greeneville on May 20, 1874; buried at Mt. Bethel Presbyterian Churchyard, Greeneville. Father of William S. McGaughey, sometime member Tennessee General Assembly.<\/p>\n
Sources: Athens Post<\/em>, May 29, 1874; Moore, Record of Commissions of Officers of the Tennessee Militia<\/em>, 107; Laughlin Dairy, Roll 40, p. 38; White, Messages of the Governors of Tennessee<\/em>, II, 468; Temple, Notable Men of Tennessee<\/em>, 52; Wilson, East Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia Railroad<\/em>, passim; Reynolds, Greene County Cemeteries<\/em>, 188; Creekmore, Greene County Marriage Records<\/em>, Vol. III, p. 111; Burns and McCoun, Soldiers of the War of 1812<\/em>, 80; D.A.R. Rosters and Soldiers<\/em>, 1181.<\/p>\n Transcribed by Mildred Collins from published biographies of Tennessee Legislators, compiled and printed by the TN State Library & Archives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Member of the Tennessee House, 17th, 18th, and 19th General Assemblies, 1827-33; representing Greene County; SENATE, 21st General Assembly, 1835-37 (1st session only; replaced by Orville Bradley); representing Greene and Hawkins counties; Unionist. Born in Sevier County on July 12, …<\/span> Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-families-individuals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/hawkins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/hawkins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/hawkins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/hawkins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/hawkins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2206"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/hawkins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2206\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2207,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/hawkins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2206\/revisions\/2207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/hawkins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/hawkins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/hawkins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}