Charles Clay Trabue

Charles Clay Trabue (1798–1851) was an American banker and Whig politician.^[1][2][3][4] He served as a member of the Missouri House of Representatives from 1824 to 1828, and as the Mayor of Nashville, Tennessee from 1839 to 1841.^[1][2][3]

Biography

Early life

He was born in Woodford County, Kentucky on August 27, 1798.^[1][3] His father was Edward Trabue and his mother, Jane (Clay) Trabue.^[1][3] At the age of seventeen, he joined served as Sergeant and joined Andrew Jackson in his fight against Native Americans during the Seminole Wars.^[3]

Career

Trabue arrived in Tennessee in 1818^[1] in order to work as a clerk at the Nashville branch of the Second Bank of the United States.^[3][5]

Shortly after marrying in 1820, the newlywed couple moved to Missouri.^[5] In 1824, he was elected as Missouri State Representative, where he served one term, until 1828.^[3] The couple then relocated to Tennessee. In 1836, he was elected to the Nashville Board of Aldermen, and reelected in 1837.^[3] He served as Mayor of Nashville from 1839 to 1841.^[1][2]

Personal life

He married Agnes Green Woods on July 5, 1820.^[1] They had nine children.^[1] He attended First Baptist Church of Nashville and sat on its building committee for a new church on Fifth Avenue.^[3] He died of brain fever^[5] on November 24, 1851, and he is buried in the Nashville City Cemetery.^[1][3][4]

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