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'''Leonidas Campbell Houk''' (June 8, 1836 – May 25, 1891) was an Eastern [[Tennessee]] Unionist and [[Republican]] [[nationalist]]<ref>Schlup, Leonard (October 8, 2017). [https://tennesseeencyclopedia.net/entries/leonidas-campbell-houk/ Leonidas Campbell Houk]. ''Tennessee Encyclopedia''. Retrieved August 25, 2021.</ref> who fought against Southern [[Confederate]]s during the [[American Civil War]] and later represented the state's 2nd congressional district from 1879 until his death in 1891.
'''Leonidas Campbell Houk''' (June 8, 1836 – May 25, 1891) was an Eastern [[Tennessee]] Unionist and [[Republican]] [[nationalist]]<ref name=tennesseeencyclopedia>Schlup, Leonard (October 8, 2017). [https://tennesseeencyclopedia.net/entries/leonidas-campbell-houk/ Leonidas Campbell Houk]. ''Tennessee Encyclopedia''. Retrieved August 25, 2021.</ref> who fought against Southern [[Confederate]]s during the [[American Civil War]] and later represented the state's 2nd congressional district from 1879 until his death in 1891.
==Civil War, Eastern Tennessee resists secession and Confederacy==
The Eastern portion of Tennessee, located within the [[Appalachian Mountains]], were unsuitable for plantation farming and were a stronghold for anti-slavery forces in the South. Residents in the area maintained a strong sense of Unionism when the Civil War broke out, and Houk participated in the 1891 Union Convention.<ref name=tennesseeencyclopedia/>
Organizing the First Tennessee Infantry, Houk served under several different ranks on the side of the Union.<ref name=tennesseeencyclopedia/> He later left the military in 1863 due to poor health, and wrote articles for the press expressing pro-Union statements.
==Political career==
==Political career==