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Cordell Hull

Cordell Hull is a Tennessee historical marker in Pickett County.

Pickett Co, TN 42, 1.2 miles south of Byrdstown

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His birthplace stands north of the road. A member of the General Assembly at 21, later a captain in the war with Spain, he was 24 years in Congress, later a Senator, Secretary of State 12 years, his efforts in behalf of the United Nations earned him the Nobel Peace Prize. He died in 1955, aged 83, and is buried in Washington’s National Cathedral.

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