February 13, 1828

Ambrose Hundley Sevier took his seat in Congress as a territorial delegate. He quickly aligned himself with Andrew Jackson, and his political faction evolved into Arkansas’s Democratic Party. Sevier was one of the founders of a political dynasty known as “The Family” that ruled antebellum Arkansas politics from the 1820s until the Civil War, and he also secured Arkansas’s bid for statehood.

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