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Mar 26, 1830 McMinn County, Tennessee, United States Died on 14 Jun 1898 (aged 68)
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About Dewitt Clinton Senter
- Dewitt Clinton Senter (March 26, 1830 – June 14, 1898) was an American politician who served as Governor of Tennessee from 1869 to 1871.
- He had previously served in the Tennessee House of Representatives (1855–1861), where he opposed secession on the eve of the Civil War.
- He was elected to the Tennessee Senate following the war, and was chosen as Speaker of the Senate in 1867.
- As speaker, he became governor upon the resignation of William G.
- Brownlow in 1869.Senter is perhaps best remembered for undoing many of Brownlow's radical initiatives, most notably the restoring of the right to vote to former Confederates.
- The current Tennessee State Constitution was written and enacted during Senter's tenure.
