William Carroll (3 March 1788-22 March 1844) was the Democratic-Republican Governor of Tennessee from 1 October 1821 to 1 October 1827 (succeeding Joseph McMinn and preceding Sam Houston) and its Democratic governor from 1 October 1829 to 12 October 1835 (succeeding William Hall and preceding Newton Cannon).
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William Carroll was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 1788, and he moved to Nashville, Tennessee in 1808 and established a branch of his father's hardware store in that city. He served under Andrew Jackson during the War of 1812, becoming a major-general of the state militia. After the war, he served as Governor of Tennessee from 1821 to 1827 and from 1829 to 1835, joining Jackson's Democratic Party. He established a progressive penal code and oversaw government-funded internal improvements, but he lost re-election amid a rise in Whig power in the state. He died in 1844.