Robert Porter Caldwell

Was an American politician and a member of the United States House of Representatives for the 7th congressional district of Tennessee. He was born in Adair County, Kentucky on December 16, 1821. He moved with his parents to Henry County, Tennessee and a few years later moved to Obion County. He attended the public schools of Troy and Lebanon, studied law at Troy, was admitted to the bar, and commenced practice in Trenton in 1845. Robert Caldwell served in the Tennessee House of Representatives in 1847 and 1848. He was a member of the Tennessee Senate in 1855 and 1856. He was elected attorney general for the sixteenth judicial circuit of Tennessee in 1858. During the Civil War, he was a major in the Twelfth Regiment, Tennessee Infantry, of the Confederate Army. He was elected as a Democrat to the Forty-second Congress, but was not a successful candidate for re-election to the Forty-third Congress. He served from March 4, 1871 to March 3, 1873. He resumed the practice of law in Trenton, Tennessee. He died in Trenton on March 12, 1885. He was interred in Oakland Cemetery.

CALDWELL, George Alfred
(1814—1866)

CALDWELL, George Alfred, a Representative from Kentucky; born in Columbia, Adair County, Ky., October 18, 1814; attended the common schools; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1837 and commenced practice in Adair County; member of the State house of representatives in 1839 and 1840; elected as a Democrat to the Twenty-eighth Congress (March 4, 1843-March 3, 1845); chairman, Committee on Expenditures in the Department of the Treasury (Twenty-eighth Congress); commissioned major and quartermaster of Volunteers in the war with Mexico June 26, 1846; major of Infantry March 3, 1847, and major of voltigeurs April 9, 1847; brevetted lieutenant colonel September 13, 1847 for service in the Battle of Chapultepec, Mexico; honorably mustered out August 25, 1848; elected to the Thirty-first Congress (March 4, 1849-March 3, 1851); chairman, Committee on Expenditures in the Department of the Treasury (Thirty-first Congress); was not a candidate for reelection to the Thirty-second Congress; resumed the practice of law in Louisville; delegate to the Union National Convention at Philadelphia in 1866; died in Louisville, Ky., September 17, 1866; interment in Cave Hill Cemetery.

Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present, contributed by A. Newell