Willie Blount

This statesman settled 2 mi. N., 1802. Born 1768, was secretary to the governor, Territory South of the River Ohio, later a judge in the state's first Superior Court of Law & Equity. Elected governor after a term in the Legislature, he served six consecutive years. A member of the Constitutional Convention of 1834; he died in 1835.

Marker is at the intersection of U.S. 41A and Mt. Carmel Road, on the right when traveling north on U.S. 41A.

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