William Blount (/ blʌnt / BLUNT; April 6, 1749 – March 21, 1800) [1] was an American politician, landowner and Founding Father who was one of the signers of the Constitution of the United States.

Oct 8, 2017 · Territorial Governor and U.S. Senator William Blount was born on Easter Sunday (March 26) 1749, the eldest child of Jacob and Barbara Gray Blount of Bertie County, North Carolina. As a lad, Blount received informal training in commerce at the side of his father, who operated a farm and a mill and sold tar and turpentine.

William Blount (born March 26, 1749, Bertie County, N.C.—died March 21, 1800, Knoxville, Tenn., U.S.) was the first territorial governor of (1790–96) and later one of the first two U.S. senators from Tennessee (1796–97).

Jul 7, 2024 · William Blount is one of the lesser-known men who signed the Constitution, but one of the most controversial, since he put a key part of the founding document to a critical test less than a decade after it was ratified.

In 1790 President George Washington appointed William Blount, a Republican, as governor of the newly formed Tennessee Territory. When Tennessee entered the Union in 1796, the legislature chose Blount as one of the state's first two United States senators.

Dec 22, 2019 · Blount first lived in Philadelphia to serve in the Continental Congress, and he helped to write the United States Constitution as a member of the Constitutional Convention, which met at Independence Hall in 1787.

Most disturbing of all, the letter named Tennessee Senator William Blount as principal conspirator. The most damning piece of evidence was Blount’s April 21, 1797, letter to his friend, James Carey, written in the senator's hand and bearing his signature.

William Blount, the eldest son of Jacob Blount, Sr., and Barbara Gray Blount, was born in Bertie County, North Carolina, on March 26, 1749. He was active in the family mercantile business and later served in the American Revolution as paymaster of the 3rd North Carolina regiment and for …

In 1796, after it became a state, Blout served as the one of the first Senators to Tennessee. This lasted until he became the first person expelled from the Senate in 1797 for being found guilty of “of a high misdemeanor, entirely inconsistent with his public trust and duty as a Senator.”

Planter and land speculator Blount, who played an insignificant part at the Constitutional Convention, carved out a career in North Carolina and Tennessee as well as in national politics. It was marred, however, when he earned the dubious distinction of being the first man to be expelled from the U.S. Senate.