User:Jengod/Thomas Swann

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Swann was from an elite family in Powhatan County, Virginia

graduate of the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg{{Cite news |last=Cate |first=Wirt Armistead |date=1955-04-12 |title='Peach Blossom' and the Jackson–Dickinson Duel |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/nashville-banner-peach-blossom-and-the/171756389/ |access-date=2025-05-05 |work=Nashville Banner |pages=9}}

he arrived in Nashville with a "letter of introduction to Jackson's neighbor Edward Ward."{{Cite news |date=1857-10-01 |title=Notice to the Heirs of Elizabeth Spencer, Deceased |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/daily-national-intelligencer-and-washing/169391757/ |access-date=2025-04-03 |work=Daily National Intelligencer and Washington Express |pages=4}}{{Cite journal |last= |first= |date=1984 |title=The Papers of Andrew Jackson, Volume II, 1804-l–1813 |url=https://trace.tennessee.edu/utk_jackson/5/ |journal=The Papers of Andrew Jackson |pages=78}} In 1811, Willie Blount beat Swann in a race for governor of Tennessee; the margin in Davidson County was 1482 to 15.{{Cite news |date=1811-08-06 |title=Election Returns |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-democratic-clarion-and-tennessee-gaz/169455234/ |access-date=2025-04-03 |work=The Democratic Clarion and Tennessee Gazette |pages=2}} Swann later married a girl from Gallatin and still later reportedly went to Mexico and came to some sort of bad end.{{Cite news |date=1936-05-24 |title=Leaves from the Family Tree |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/chattanooga-daily-times-leaves-from-the/169448782/ |access-date=2025-04-03 |work=Chattanooga Daily Times |pages=36}}