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attorney planter politician statesman
He was born on November 4, 1801 in Greene County, Tennessee, United States, the son of John Sevier, the great-grandson of Valentine Sevier who emigrated from England to Baltimore in the middle of the 18th century, and the grand-nephew of John Sevier. His mother was probably Susannah (Conway) Sevier, also called Susan and Ann, the sister of James Sevier Conway and Elias Nelson Conway. She divorced her husband, married again in 1812, and died about 1815.
The boy received such education as the frontier afforded and studied law with his father.
At the age of nineteen he removed to Missouri, and to Arkansas in 1821. There he was soon elected clerk of the territorial House of Representatives, served as a member from 1823 to 1827, and became speaker in 1827.
Next year Henry W. Conway, the territorial delegate to Congress, was killed in a duel with Robert Crittenden, and Ambrose was elected to succeed him. He had himself already fought a duel, and in Congress he opposed a bill to prohibit dueling in the District of Columbia on the ground that it was a bill to protect members of Congress who had slandered their masters, the people. He kept his seat as delegate from February 13, 1828, to June 15, 1836, when Arkansas was admitted as a state, having taken a prominent part in bringing about that result.
As a Democrat he was elected senator and served in that capacity until March 1848. He worked constantly for his territory and state and obtained numerous favors from Congress, particularly donations of land. He was made a member of the committee on Indian affairs and favored the organization of an Indian territory out of the region west of Missouri and Arkansas.
He took an active interest in the Mexican War. As chairman of the committee on foreign relations he introduced and pushed through the "3 million dollar bill" appropriating money for peace negotiations. When the Trist treaty of peace was amended by the Senate, President Polk, his personal friend, asked Sevier to serve as minister to Mexico to conclude the negotiations. He hesitated but finally resigned, on March 15, 1848, to accept.
When the state legislature met in November 1848, Sevier was a candidate for reelection, but after the legislature had balloted for three days he withdrew. He had been taken ill after his appointment to go to Mexico, had recovered, but was attacked again while in Mexico.
He died at his home, a large cotton plantation near Little Rock, Arksas.
Ambrose Hundley Sevier is known as the "Father of Arkansas Statehood" as he was elected as the first member of the United States Senate from Arkansas. His main decisions: he voted to recognize the independence of Texas in 1837, for the treaty of annexation in 1844, and for the second joint resolution, which gave the president the choice of proceeding by treaty or direct annexation. He also helped to negotiate the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo at the end of the Mexican-American War. Sevier County, Arkansas is named in his honor.
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He supported Linn's Oregon Bill and declared that the United States should occupy and govern that territory to carry out the Monroe Doctrine. Naturally he supported Polk's Oregon policy, championing even in bellicose language the resolution to give notice of the termination of the treaty of joint occupation.
He was tall and handsome, with an irresistible laugh that won him many friends.
On August 26, 1827 he was married to Juliette Johnson, the niece of James and Richard Mentor Johnson and the sister of Robert Ward Johnson, and thereby became a member of the politically powerful Johnson family. They had five children.
