State: | Southwest Territory |
District Number: | AL |
Member Type: | Delegate |
Representative: | N/A |
Obsolete: | yes |
Created: | 1794 |
Custom Created: | as a non-voting delegate was granted by Congress |
Eliminated: | 1796 |
Custom Eliminated: | as a result of statehood as Tennessee |
Years: | 1794–1796 |
The Southwest Territory, or the Territory South of the River Ohio was organized May 26, 1790. A month later, John Sevier was sworn in to represent it as Congressman from North Carolina's defunct 5th district, which was exactly the same area. It received a non-voting delegate briefly from 1794 to 1796, and was then organized to form the State of Tennessee on June 1, 1796.