Ambrose Hundley Sevier (4 November 1801 – 31 December 1848) was a US Senator from Arkansas (D) from 18 September 1836 to 15 March 1848, preceding Solon Borland.
Biography[]
Ambrose Hundley Sevier was born in Greeneville, Tennessee in 1801 to the influential Sevier family, and he became a lawyer in 1823. He served in the State House of Representatives from 1823 to 1827, and he served as a delegate to the US House of Representatives from the Arkansas Territory from 13 February 1828 to 15 June 1836 after Henry Wharton Conway was killed in a duel. Sevier, considered to be the father of Arkansas' statehood, served as one of its inaugural US Senators from 1836 to 1848, negotiating the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo at the end of the Mexican-American War. He died in 1848.