Background
Marable, John Hartwell was born on November 18, 1786 in near Lawrenceville, Virginia, United States.
Marable, John Hartwell was born on November 18, 1786 in near Lawrenceville, Virginia, United States.
He pursued an academic course and studied in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. According to compiled records, he attended the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine in 1805 and 1806.
Marable practiced medicine and moved to Yellow Creek, Tennessee, where he continued to engage in the practice, and served as Postmaster, Yellow Creek, Montgomery County, Tennessee. Marable was elected as a Jacksonian Republican to the Nineteenth and Twentieth Congresses, serving from March 4, 1825 to March 3, 1829. He was an unsuccessful candidate for re-election to the Twenty-first Congress, and resumed his practice.
Marable died in Montgomery County, Tennessee on April 11, 1844 (age 57 years, 145 days).
He is interred at Marable Cemetery near Clarksville, Tennessee.
Democratic-Republican Party, Democratic Party.
He was a member of the Tennessee Senate in 1817 and 1818. He elected alderman for the city of Clarksville, Tennessee in 1819, and was a Charter Member of the Medical Association in Tennessee.