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Ambrose Hundley Sevier (November 4, 1801 – December 31, 1848) was an attorney, politician and planter from Arkansas. A member of the political Conway-Johnson family that dominated the state and national delegations in the antebellum years, he was elected by the legislature as a Democratic U.S. Senator.
Nov 1, 2023 · Ambrose Hundley Sevier was a territorial delegate and one of the first U.S. senators from the state of Arkansas. Sevier was also one of the founders of a political dynasty which ruled antebellum Arkansas politics from the 1820s until the Civil War.
As the number of land claims, encampments, and settlements grew, a local representative of the territory, Ambrose H. Sevier, urged Congress protect the region’s natural resources. The designation of Hot Springs Reservation in 1832 was the first designation the government ever made to protect a natural resource, and predates any major park ...
Sevier was born in Green county, Tennessee, November 4, 1801. He received a liberal education in his native county and when about nineteen came to Arkansas, locating at Little Rock. His political career began in 1821, when he served as clerk of the territorial house of repre- sentatives.
by the territorial representative, Ambrose H. Sevier. Then, in 1832, the Federal Government took the unprecedented step of setting aside four sections of land here, the first U.S. reservation made sim ply to protect a natural resource. Little effort was made to mar k the boundaries adequately, and by the mid-1800s, claims and counter
Abstract. Ambrose H. Sevier (1801-1848) is known as "The Father of Arkansas Statehood." Sevier was delegate to Congress, 1827-36 and U.S. senator, 1838-48. As the special envoy to Mexico, Sevier negotiated the Treaty of Guadelupe Hidalgo which ended the Mexican War in 1848.
Ambrose Hundley Sevier was an attorney, politician and planter from Arkansas. A member of the political Conway-Johnson family that dominated the state and national delegations in the antebellum years, he was elected by the legislature as a Democratic U.S. Senator.
