in the House of Representatives Whitthorne returned to Columbia and died there later in 1891, being interred at Rose Hill Cemetery. Whitthorne Middle School in Columbia, formerly Whitthorne Junior High School, is named in his honor. See also References Bar Association of Tennessee's; Proceedings of the ... Annual Session of the Bar Association of Tennessee, The Association, (1905) The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography: Being the History of the United States as Illustrated in the Lives of the Founders, Builders, and Defenders of the Republic, and of the Men and Women who are Doing the Work and Moulding the Thought of the Present Time, J. T. White company, (1900) United States Congress, W. H. Michael; Official Congressional Directory (1890) References 1825 births 1891 deaths People from Marshall County, Tennessee American people of Irish descent Democratic Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Tennessee Democratic Party United States senators from Tennessee Democratic Party members of the Tennessee House of Representatives Democratic Party Tennessee state senators Tennessee lawyers American slave owners Confederate States Army generals People of Tennessee in the American Civil War 19th-century American politicians United States senators who owned slaves