Adam Huntsman

It was here that he studied law under John Williams, one of Knoxville's most prominent attorneys in the early nineteenth century and later a United States Senator.

Huntsman carried the legal skills he learned from Williams with him westward to Overton County, Tennessee and later Madison County, Tennessee, where he became a highly regarded criminal lawyer.

[3] He ran unsuccessfully for re-election to the Twenty-fifth Congress, losing to John Wesley Crockett, his predecessor's son.

[4] His daughter, Anne Huntsman Scurlock, had a grave marker placed in the "colored section" of Riverside Cemetery in Jackson, Tennessee, for an enslaved man named Silas, who died in 1857.

"[5] This article incorporates public domain material from the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress