Quick Facts

• NAME: William Blount
• OCCUPATION: Governor, U.S. Representative
• BIRTH DATE: March 26, 1749
• DEATH DATE: March 21, 1800
• PLACE OF BIRTH: Bertie Countie, North Carolina 
• PLACE OF DEATH: Knoxville, Tennessee

• Profile

  During the 1780s, William Blount was elected to six terms in the North Carolina legislature and was a member of the North Carolina convention that ratified the Constitution. Blount became territorial governor of the lands west of the Alleghenies ceded to the U.S. in 1789 by North Carolina, and when this territory became the state of Tennessee, Blount was elected one of its first two senators.