It was uninhabited when it was chosen as a terr. capital in 1836 & named for a president who died that year
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Texas, when Mexicans crossed the Rio Grande on April 23, 1846 and killed ... 
Fifty-one years later it was organized as a territory, which included the... [DOC] [TLE] Tennessee facts, information, pictures | Encyclopedia.com articles ... [PAR] LEGAL HOLIDAYS: New Year's Day, 1 January; Birthday of Martin Luther King Jr.
, 3rd ..... White settlers found Tennessee inhabited by Cherokee Indians in the ...