![]() | Antebellum Politics in Tennessee Tennessee played a critical and vital role in national politics in the mid-nineteenth century. Two Tennesseans, for example, served as president and two others were presidential candidates. Such prominence be-speaks the importance of politics in the state's antebellum culture. For the first time in its history Tennessee developed a two-party system, one that was vigorous and exciting. Paul H. Bergeron is professor of history at the University of Tennessee. He is the author of Paths of the Past: Tennessee 1770-1970 and was coeditor of the first two volumes of the Correspondence of James K. Polk . |
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