Dekalb County Politics

DEKALB COUNTIANS IN
STATE AND U. S. GOVERNMENT

The following information has been taken from "A BICENTENNIAL HISTORY OF DEKALB COUNTY, TENNESSEE" by Thomas Gray Webb. This is being done with the permission of Mr. Webb.

Many Dekalb Countians of the present time are very interested in politics, and interest in politics was even higher in DeKalb County in the past than it is today. There was probably never a time when more interest was shown in politics in the Coun ty than the two decades between the organization of the County in 1838 and the beginning of the Civil War in 1861.

Dekalb County does not now have, and never has had, any degree of political unity. From the moment of its organization, it was almost evenly divided between the major parties of the time, The Whigs and the Democrats. The people of Dekalb County tend ed to follow the political allegiances of the Counties of which they had previously been a part. Thus the Liberty -Alexandria area was heavily Whig, as was Smith County from which it was taken. The Caney Fork ares, much of which was taken from White Cou nty, was about evenly Divided between Whigs and Democrats. Warren County was strongly Democratic, as was the part of Dekalb around Smithville and south through the Flatwoods to the Warren County line. All together, Dekalb was nearly evenly divided Betwe en Whigs and Democrats. The Whig Party later became the Republican Party.

DEKALB COUNTIANS IN THE UNITED STATES CONGRESS

DEKALB COUNTIANS IN THE TENNESSEE
GENERAL ASSEMBLY

SENATE

Name (Party)	-	Name (Party)	-
James McGuire (Dem.)	1847	Montreville D. Smallman (Dem.)	1881,1883
Wm. B. Stokes (American)	1855	Beuregard C. Adcock (Dem.)	1893
John F. Goodner (American)	1857	Pleasant C. Crowley (Dem.)	1903
Wingate T. Robinson (Rep.)	1865	Oliver E. Underhill (Dem.)	1917,1925
John A. Fuson (Rep.)	1867	J. Edgar Evins (Dem.)	1935,1945
Joseph Clarke (Unionist)	1872	McAllen Foutch (Dem.)	1955

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

Name (Party)	-	Name (Party)	-
Daniel Coggin (Whig)	1843	John H. Savage Knowles (Dem.)	1907
John A. Fuson (Whig)	1845,1847	John E. Conger (Rep.)	1909
Wm B. Stokes (Whig)	1849,1851	A. Nixon Cathcart (Dem.)	1911
Horace A. Overall (Dem.)	1853	Norman Ross Robinson (Rep)	1913
Manson M. Brien (American)	1855	Horace M. Evans (Dem.)	1915
Abram Monroe Savage (Dem.) (died in office)	1857	James W. Parker (Rep.)	1917
Robert Cantrell (Dem.)	1857	Brown Davis (Dem.)	1919
Joshua J. Ford (Dem.)	1859	William N. Adcock (Rep.)	1921
William Floyd (Dem.)	1861	George S. Buckner (Dem.)	1923
John A. Fuson (Rep.)	1865	Tom Ed Driver (Dem.)	1925,1927
Wingate T. Robinson (Rep.)	1867	Thomas Henry Chapman (Rep.)	1929
W. Alonzo Dunlap (Rep.)	1869	Worth Crowley (Dem.)	1931
James P. Doss (Dem.)	1871,1872	George C. Puckett (Dem.)	1933
Joshua J. Ford (Dem.)	1877	Grady M. Allison (Rep.)	1935
Horace A. Overall (Dem.)	1883	Robert Nixon (Dem.)	1937
James M. Allen (Dem.)	1885,1887	Ulysses C. Ervin (Dem.)	1939
Martin L. Bonham (Dem.)	1889,1890	Eugene Hendon (Dem.)	1941
John H. Savage Knowles (Dem.)	1891	McAllen Foutch (Dem.) Speaker of the House	1943-1953 1949-1953
Henry C. Givan (Dem.)	1893	Milns Thoburn Puckett (Dem.)	1955
Samuel Wauford (Populist)	1895	McAllen Foutch (Dem.)	1957
Alexander Travis Phillips (Dem.)	1897	Ramon Maxie Adcock (Dem.)	1959,1961
William T. Dozier (Dem.)	1899	M. T. Puckett (Dem.)	1963,1965
Pleasant C. Crowley (Dem.)	1901	Frank Buck (Dem.)	1973 to Present
Lycurgus Driver (Dem.)	1903,1905	-	-

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