Rusk, Thomas Jefferson
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...57, American political leader, U.S. Senator from Texas (1846 57), b. Pendleton District, S.C. He studied law under John C. Calhoun and practiced in Clarksville, Ga., for 10 years before moving to Texas in 1835. Rusk was a member of the convention...