Henry Hunter Bryan was an American politician who represented Tennessee

Tennessee

Tennessee is a U.S. state located in the Southeastern United States. It has a population of 6,346,105, making it the nation's 17th-largest state by population, and covers , making it the 36th-largest by total land area...

 in the United States House of Representatives

United States House of Representatives

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Biography

He attended grammar

Grammar school

A grammar school is one of several different types of school in the history of education in the United Kingdom and some other English-speaking countries, originally a school teaching classical languages but more recently an academically-oriented secondary school.The original purpose of mediaeval...

 and high schools, moved to Tennessee, and held several local offices. He was elected as a Democratic-Republican to the Sixteenth Congress, which lasted from March 4, 1819 to March 3, 1821. He had been re-elected to the Seventeenth Congress, but did not take his seat.

His brother, Joseph Hunter Bryan

Joseph Hunter Bryan

Joseph Hunter Bryan was a Congressional Representative from North Carolina...

, was also a U.S. Representative.

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