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==Tennessee==
==Tennessee==
Blount hoped to be elected to the first U.S. Senate. When he failed to achieve that end, in 1790 he pushed westward beyond the Appalachians, where he held speculative land interests and had represented North Carolina in dealings with the Indians. He settled in what became Tennessee, to which he devoted the rest of his life. He resided first at Rocky Mount, a cabin near present Johnson City and in 1792 built a mansion in Knoxville.
Blount hoped to be elected to the first U.S. Senate, though he he failed to achieve that end. In 1790 Washington appointed Blount as Governor for the Territory South of the River Ohio (which included Tennessee) and also as Superintendent of Indian Affairs for the Southern Department, in which positions he increased his popularity with the frontiersmen. As governor, he pushed westward beyond the Appalachians, where he held speculative land interests and had represented North Carolina in dealings with the Indians.
He settled in what became Tennessee, to which he devoted the rest of his life. He resided first at Rocky Mount, a cabin near present Johnson City and in 1792 built a mansion in Knoxville. In 1791 he negotiated and signed the Treaty of the Holston, between the United States and the Cherokee.<ref>[https://www.google.com/books/edition/History_of_Tennessee/HlUVAAAAYAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&pg=PA132 History of Tennessee - Its People and Its Institutions from the Earliest Times to the Year 1903]</ref>
In 1796 he presided over the constitutional convention that transformed part of the territory into the State of Tennessee. He was elected as one of its first U.S. senators (1796–97).
==Later years==
==Later years==