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Nov 10, 2020 · Story continues below -. In recent years, Scott County has become even more solidly Republican. In 2016, Donald Trump received a larger share of the vote than in any other county in the state, with the exception of Wayne County. In 2018, Scott Countians voted for Republican Governor Bill Lee by the largest margin of any of Tennessee’s 95 ...
- Secession Looms
- If Tennessee Can Secede, So Can Scott County
- Back to Tennessee
When Abraham Lincoln — nominee of the brand-new, anti-slavery Republican Party — was elected President of the United States in 1860, the writing was on the wall. War was inevitable. By late December, South Carolina had seceded from the Union. Three weeks later, Mississippi followed suit, and then Florida one day later. The dominoes began to quickly...
East Tennesseans were furious over the state’s vote to secede. Political leaders from the region first claimed that the vote was fraudulent, then gathered in Greeneville for a convention. There, they petitioned Gov. Harris to allow the eastern portion of the state to secede and form a state of its own. Harris refused, and in response sent troops in...
It wasn’t until 1986 that Scott County formally voted to rejoin the Volunteer State. That summer, as part of Tennessee’s Homecoming celebration, Scott County Commission adopted a resolution that read, “After 125 years of independence, in this the year of Tennessee homecoming, the Scott Commissioners and people of Scott County have declared the Free...
The State of Scott was a Southern Unionist movement in Scott County, Tennessee, in which the county declared itself a "Free and Independent State" following Tennessee 's decision to secede from the United States and align the state with the Confederacy on the eve of the American Civil War in 1861. Like much of East Tennessee, Scott became an ...
Jul 30, 2023 · In response to the pleas of Maynard and Johnson, Scott Countians voted 521-19 (97%) to reject secession. It was the largest margin of any county in Tennessee. In Morgan County, 93% of voters were against secession. In Fentress County, 84% of voters were against it. Scott County Sheriff Bailey Buttram signed the county’s secession vote tally ...
Jun 15, 2022 · In Scott County, Congressman Horace Maynard visited Huntsville on June 4, four days before the secession vote. Maynard, a former Whig who represented Scott County and the rest of Tennessee’s 2nd District in Washington, was at that time opposed to ending slavery, but was also dead-set against secession (he would later change his stance on ...
Scott County is a county located in the U.S. state of Tennessee. As of the 2020 census, its population was 22,039, down from 22,228 at the 2010 census. Its county seat is Huntsville and the largest town is Oneida. [2] Scott County is known for having seceded from Tennessee in protest of the state's decision to join the Confederacy during the ...
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Jul 10, 2024 · With very few slaves and very little sympathy toward the rich plantation owners in the rest of the state, Scott County was just not on board. And that’s when things got fun. On June 12, 1861, four days after Tennessee officially seceded, a popular vote in Scott County came back 541-19 against seceding.
