{"id":766,"date":"2026-01-05T04:04:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-05T10:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/haywood\/?p=766"},"modified":"2026-01-10T17:54:35","modified_gmt":"2026-01-10T23:54:35","slug":"david-alexander-nunn-1833-1918-federal-and-state-representative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/haywood\/david-alexander-nunn-1833-1918-federal-and-state-representative\/","title":{"rendered":"David Alexander Nunn, 1833-1918, Federal and State Representative"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: <em>Biographical Directory of the United States Congress<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Click here to view archived page captured September 15, 1999.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>NUNN, David Alexander,<\/strong><\/em>&nbsp;a Representative from Tennessee;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>born near Brownsville, Haywood County, Tenn., July 26, 1833;<\/li>\n<li>attended private schools and the West Tennessee College at Jackson, Tenn.;<\/li>\n<li>studied law; graduated from Cumberland University, Lebanon, Tenn., in 1853;<\/li>\n<li>was admitted to the bar and commenced practice in Brownsville;<\/li>\n<li>presidential elector on the Constitutional Union ticket in 1860 and on the Republican ticket in 1864;<\/li>\n<li>member of the State house of representatives, 1865-1867;<\/li>\n<li>elected as a Republican to the Fortieth Congress (March 4, 1867-March 3, 1869);<\/li>\n<li>unsuccessful Independent Republican candidate for reelection in 1868 to the Forty-first Congress;<\/li>\n<li>appointed by President Grant as Minister Resident to Ecuador April 21, 1869;<\/li>\n<li>resigned November 2, 1869;<\/li>\n<li>elected to the Forty-third Congress (March 4, 1873-March 3, 1875);<\/li>\n<li>unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1874 to the Forty-fourth Congress;<\/li>\n<li>secretary of state of Tennessee 1881-1885;<\/li>\n<li>appointed by President McKinley collector of internal revenue at Nashville, Tenn., July 20, 1897, and served until his resignation January 17, 1902;<\/li>\n<li>retired to private life;<\/li>\n<li>died in Brownsville, Tenn., September 11, 1918;<\/li>\n<li>interment in Oakwood Cemetery.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress Click here to view archived page captured September 15, 1999. NUNN, David Alexander,&nbsp;a Representative from Tennessee; born near Brownsville, Haywood County, Tenn., July 26, 1833; attended private schools and the West Tennessee College at Jackson, Tenn.; studied law; graduated from Cumberland University, Lebanon, Tenn., in 1853; was admitted to the bar and commenced practice in Brownsville; presidential elector on the Constitutional Union ticket in 1860 and on the Republican ticket in 1864;&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/haywood\/david-alexander-nunn-1833-1918-federal-and-state-representative\/\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/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":[50,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biographies","category-professions-and-professionals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/haywood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/766","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/haywood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/haywood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/haywood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/haywood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=766"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/haywood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/766\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1214,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/haywood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/766\/revisions\/1214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/haywood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/haywood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/haywood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}