representing their native Cocke County. Charles Inman's House assignments for the 1867–1869 term included the Committee on Finance, Ways and Means, the Committee on Military Affairs, and the Committee on Tippling and Tippling Houses. In October 1867, he introduced a bill that would appropriate funds for the establishment of a hospital in Knoxville. He generally supported railroad legislation, voted in favor of a bill that provided certain protections for merchants, and voted to incorporate the Knoxville Iron Company. He voted for a bill that barred common carriers from discriminating on the basis of race, though he also voted in favor of a poll tax. Inman supported legislation that provided for the reorganization and maintenance of the state's public schools, and voted for the formation of a committee to investigate the mishandling of federal agricultural school funds. In August 1868, Inman voted for a measure authorizing Brownlow to declare martial law in any county he deemed necessary, a response to the growing threat of the Ku Klux Klan. He voted for a bill authorizing the state to seek compensation from the federal government for damages suffered during the war by the state's Unionists, and voted against a January 1869 measure that would have restored voting rights to some former Confederates. In October 1867, he cast his vote for Brownlow to fill one of the state's soon-to-be-vacant U.S. Senate seats. Later life After his second term ended, Inman returned to his farm in Fair Garden, and remained only marginally active in politics. He died in Fair Garden on April 9, 1899. See also Robert H. Hodsden References External links 1810 births 1899 deaths People from Sevier County, Tennessee Republican Party members of the Tennessee House of Representatives Union Army officers People of Tennessee in the American Civil War Southern Unionists in the American Civil War American Civil War prisoners of war 19th-century American politicians