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Natchez.201 Also, Claiborne was elected to Congress during Jackson?s second term. His election was by a large majority, and at that time, he was the youngest member of that body. Another connection might well have involved W.C.C. Claiborne, the first governor of Louisiana.202 He was a younger brother of Ferdinand, and like his brother, entered politics. Having moved to Tennessee at an early age to practice law there, he was elected to Congress at age 22. Probably not coincidentally, he was to complete Andrew Jackson?s term. It is perhaps noteworthy that he married a Nashville native, Eliza Lewis.v203 In a letter dated March 15, 1813, to General Andrew Jackson, Governor Claiborne wrote, ?The friendship which I formed for you in early life, is still ardent and sincere....?204
On the other hand, it is known that Gov. Claiborne respited Gen. Jackson?s authority prior to the battle at Chalmette, and Jafckson is quoted as saying that Claiborne was ?...much better qualifieclfor great pomp & show, & courting popularity - quie\life - in civil walks - than military achievement amidst peril danger.?'
Moreover,\ third brother of John ancf'WCC, Nathaniel Herbert Claiborne, in his book about the war, does nqt make any significant connection between the Jacksons and the Claibomes, other than trve service by the two generals in the Creek War. There >s no mention of an intercession by Jacksorrwhen WCC succeeded to Jackson?s Congressional seak instead, Nathaniel attributes the happening to ?friends.? Indeed, ne does devote a short chapter to Gen. Jackson, but in the process showMittle familiarity with the general. The book was publi^ied in 1819, when Jackson would have bee^only 53 years old, but the author stated that ?he is afyeast sixty.?206
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Rowland, Dunbar, Mississippi Territory in War of 1812, p. 152.
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W. C. C. Claiborne defeated Wm. Cocke for the unexpired term in the House of Representatives in 1797, when Andrew Jackson was elected to the Senate. It is known that Jackson favored Claiborne and got into a dispute with Cocke, almost resulting in a duel. - Robert Remini, Andrew Jackson, Vol. I, p. 107.
Elizabeth Lewis was the daughter of William Terrell Lewis, a prominent Nashville leader. She died, along with her three year-old daughter of yellow fever on September 27, 1804, in New Orleans. Another Lewis, apparently not related, was William B. Lewis, who was Andrew Jackson?s closest neighbor when Jackson married Rachel. The latter Lewis also married a daughter of William Terrell Lewis, that daughter being Margaret, a sister of Elizabeth. At the time of that marriage, Eliza would already have been deceased several years; nevertheless, the connection between the Jacksons and the Claibomes seems inescapable. The latter Lewis also received several high ranking appointments during the Jackson administration.
204	Official Letter Books of W.C.C. Claiborne 1801-1816, V. VI, p. 214..
205	Robert Remini, The Battle of New Orleans, p. 32.
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Nathaniel Herbert Claiborne, Notes on the War in the South, p. 89.