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Willie Blount

Willie Blount is a Tennessee historical marker in Montgomery County.

Montgomery Co, TN 112 (US 41A), 2 miles west of Robertson Co. Line

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This statesman settled 2 mi. N., 1802. Born 1768, was secretary to the governor, Territory South of the River Ohio, later a judge in the state's first Superior Court of Law & Equity. Elected governor after a term in the Legislature, he served six consecutive years. A member of the Constitutional Convention of 1834; he died in 1835.

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