Julius W. Blackwell
Julius W. Blackwell was an American politician and a member of the United States House of Representatives that represented fourth and third districts of Tennessee in the United States House of Representatives.
[edit] Biography
He was born in Virginia in 1797 and attended the public schools. He moved to Tennessee and settled in Athens, McMinn County. He was elected as a Democrat by the fourth district to the Twenty-sixth Congress, which lasted from March 4, 1839 to March 3, 1841. He was an unsuccessful candidate for re-election to the Twenty-seventh Congress in 1840.
After the number of electoral districts Tennessee held had been reduced and reapportioned, he was elected by Tennessee's third district to the Twenty-eighth Congress, which lasted from March 4, 1843 to March 3, 1845. He was an unsuccessful candidate for re-election to the Twenty-ninth Congress in 1844.
