Howell Tatum (died 1822) was a justice of the

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from 1797 to 1798. Born in

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,C.A. Snodgrass, ''The History of Freemasonry in Tennessee 1789-1943'' (1944), p. 438. Tatum was a soldier in the

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, serving as an ensign in the First North Carolina Regiment, Continental Line, in 1775. He moved to Tennessee in the late 1780s or early 1790s, settling in the Metro District, which comprised

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and

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Counties. He served as treasurer of the district from 1794 to 1796, and was then Attorney General for the district from 1796 to 1797. He was appointed to the state supreme court in 1797, resigning the following year. He was a topographical engineer in the

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. Tatum was interred with full military honors on September 9, 1822."Died", ''Knoxville Intelligencer'' (September 17, 1822), p. 3.

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