Felix Grundy
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Portrait by Washington B. Cooper
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| 13th United States Attorney General | |
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In office July 5, 1838 – December 14, 1839 |
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| President | Martin Van Buren |
| Preceded by | Benjamin F. Butler |
| Succeeded by | Henry D. Gilpin |
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United States Senator from Tennessee |
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In office October 19, 1829 – July 4, 1838 |
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| Preceded by | John Eaton |
| Succeeded by | Ephraim H. Foster |
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In office December 14, 1839 – December 19, 1840 |
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| Preceded by | Ephraim H. Foster |
| Succeeded by | Alfred O. P. Nicholson |
| Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Tennessee's 5th district |
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In office March 4, 1813 – 1814 |
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| Preceded by | District created |
| Succeeded by | Newton Cannon |
| Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Tennessee's 3rd district |
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In office March 4, 1811 – March 3, 1813 |
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| Preceded by | James H. Randolph |
| Succeeded by | Augustus H. Pettibone |
| Chief Justice of the Kentucky Court of Appeals | |
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In office 1807–1808 |
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| Preceded by | Thomas Todd |
| Succeeded by | Ninian Edwards |
| Member of the Tennessee House of Representatives | |
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In office 1819–1825 |
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| Member of the Kentucky House of Representatives | |
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In office 1800–1802 1804–1806 |
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| Personal details | |
| Born | September 11, 1777 Berkley County, Virginia |
| Died | December 19, 1840 (aged 63) Nashville, Tennessee |
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Democratic-Republican Democratic |
| Spouse(s) | Ann Phillips Rodgers |
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Felix Grundy (September 11, 1777 – December 19, 1840) was a congressman and senator from Tennessee and served as the 13th Attorney General of the United States.
Born in Berkeley County, Virginia (now Berkeley County, West Virginia), Grundy moved to Brownsville, Pennsylvania, and then Kentucky with his parents. He was educated at home and at the Bardstown Academy in Bardstown, Kentucky. He then studied law and was admitted to the Kentucky bar and commenced practice in Springfield, Kentucky, in 1799.
In 1799, he was chosen to represent Washington County at the convention that drafted the second Kentucky Constitution. From 1800 to 1802, he represented Washington County in the Kentucky House of Representatives. He then moved to Nelson County, which he represented in the Kentucky House from 1804 to 1806. On December 10, 1806, he was commissioned an associate justice on the Kentucky Court of Appeals. He was elevated to Chief Justice of the court on April 11, 1807. Later that year, he resigned and moved to Nashville, Tennessee, where he again took up the practice of law.
He was elected as a Democratic-Republican to the 12th and 13th Congresses and served from March 4, 1811, until his resignation in 1814.
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