16 Facts About Robert Weakley

Robert Weakley was an American politician who represented Tennessee in the United States House of Representatives from 1809 to 1811.

Robert Weakley married Jane Locke, of Salisbury, North Carolina, in 1791.

Robert Weakley joined the Revolutionary Army at the age of sixteen and served until the close of the American Revolutionary War, fighting in the battles of Alamance and Guilford Courthouse.

Robert Weakley went to Rowan County, North Carolina to study surveying with General Griffith Rutherford.

Robert Weakley moved to his estate in Nashville, "Lockeland", in 1800.

Robert Weakley was a cofounder of the town of Jefferson in Rutherford County, Tennessee.

In 1785, Robert Weakley moved to the part of North Carolina that later became Tennessee and engaged in agricultural pursuits.

Robert Weakley was a member of the North Carolina convention that ratified the Constitution of the United States in 1789.

Robert Weakley served in the Tennessee Senate in 1799,1803,1807 and 1819.

Robert Weakley was elected as a Democratic-Republican to the Eleventh Congress, which lasted from March 4,1809 to March 3,1811.

In 1819, Robert Weakley was appointed commissioner to treat with the Chickasaw Indians.

Robert Weakley served as Speaker of the Tennessee Senate from 1819 to 1821 and from 1823 to 1825.

Robert Weakley was a member of the state constitutional convention in 1834.

Robert Weakley died near Nashville, Tennessee on February 4,1845.

Robert Weakley was interred in the family vault at "Lockeland," on his estate in what is East Nashville.

Robert Weakley was reinterred at Nashville's Mount Olivet Cemetery in 1947.