Pleasant Moorman MILLER, Congress, TN (1849)

MILLER Pleasant Moorman , a Representative from Tennessee; born in Lynchburg, Campbell County, Va., birth date unknown; moved to Rogersville, Hawkins County, Tenn., in 1796, and thence to Knoxville, Knox County, Tenn., 1800; one of the commissioners for the government of Knoxville, 1801 and 1802; elected as a Republican to the Eleventh Congress (March 4, 1809-March 3, 1811); moved to west Tennessee about 1824, and was chancellor of that division in 1836 and 1837; died in 1849; interment in Trenton, Gibson County, Tenn.

Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present