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...rsmen who spent long periods hunting in this area) came over the mountains from the Carolinas and Virginia, prevailed over the Cherokee, and made ineffectu ...h Carolina organized those settlements into Washington co.; Jonesboro, the county seat and oldest town in Tennessee, was founded two years later.

| birth_place =[[Hardin County, Kentucky]] ...the United States|sixteenth]] [[President of the United States]], serving from [[March 4]], [[1861]] until his [[Abraham Lincoln assassination|assassinati

...3, they moved to the village of [[Georgetown, Ohio|Georgetown]] in [[Brown County, Ohio]]. ...am," Grant's nickname became "Sam" among his army colleagues. He graduated from West Point in 1843, ranking 21st in a class of 39. At the academy, he estab

| order2 = 76th [[List of Governors of Georgia|Governor of Georgia]] | order3 = Member of the [[Georgia State Senate]]