William Parker Caldwell (1832-1903)
William Parker Caldwell was born in Christmasville, Tennessee on November 8, 1832. He
attended at McLemoresville, Tennessee and Princeton, Kentucky and later studied law at
Cumberland University in Lebanon, Tennessee. He was admitted to the bar in 1853 and practiced
in both Union City and Dresden. Caldwell became a member of the State House of
Representatives in 1857 for only a single term. He was a presidential elector in 1860 for the
Democratic ticket of Douglas and Johnson. He was also a delegate to the Democratic National
Convention in 1868. Caldwell was elected to United States House of Representatives in 1874 and
served in the Forty-fourth and Forty-fifth Congresses. His campaign to run for the Forty-six
Congress failed in 1878. He returned to West Tennessee and resumed the practice of law in
Gardner, Tennessee. In his twilight years he served as State senator from 1891 to 1893. William
Parker Caldwell passed away June 7, 1903 and is interred in the Caldwell Cemetery.
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