Richard Boone Cheatham

Richard Boone Cheatham (December 8, 1824 – May 7, 1877) was an American politician based in Nashville, Tennessee.

[1] He was removed from power by military governor Andrew Johnson when Union forces occupied the city beginning in 1862.

[1] After the American Civil War, Cheatham was elected as an alderman of Nashville in 1865, and as the president of the board of aldermen in 1866.

[1] Cheatham was elected during the Reconstruction era as a member of the Tennessee House of Representatives, serving from 1869 to 1871.

One of his daughters, Katherine "Kitty" Cheatham (born in 1864), became a famous singer of children's songs and "plantation melodies" she remembered her African American "Mammy" singing during her childhood.