Henry County Archive and Genealogy Library

Paris, Tennessee - Stephanie Tayloe, County Archivist

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Famous Parisians

Born in Henry County

John DeWitt Clinton Atkins (1825-1908) U.S. House Appropriations Committee, Committee Chairman, 1877-1880 U.S. Commissioner of Indian Affairs (1885-1888)

James Davis Porter (1828-1912) Tennessee Governor 1875-1879 Assistant U.S. Secretary of State (1885) U.S. Minister to Chile (1893-94)

Howell Edmunds Jackson (1832-1895) U.S. Senator 1881-1886 Justice of U.S. Supreme Court 1893-1895 Congressional Biographical Directory

Lived and Buried in Henry County

John Wesley Crockett (1807-1852) Son of David Crockett

Isham Green Harris (1818-1897) Tennessee Governor, 1857-1862

Died In Henry County

William Grainger Blount (1784-1827) Secretary of State, Tennessee, 1811-1815

William Fitzgerald (1799-1864) U.S. House of Representatives, 1831-1833 Judge of 9th Judicial District, 1845-1861

Tom C. Rye (1863-1953) Tennessee Governor, 1915-1919

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