November 10, 1801

Ambrose Sevier was born in Greene County, Tennessee. Sevier was one of the founders of a political dynasty that ruled antebellum Arkansas politics from the 1820s until the Civil War. His cousin Henry Wharton Conway founded the Arkansas Democratic Party, and his other cousin, James Sevier Conway, served as Arkansas’s first state governor, while yet another cousin, Elias Nelson Conway, was the state’s fifth chief executive.