Claiborne was a senator from Louisiana and was a Democratic Republican. He served from 1817 to 1817.
He was previously the representative for Tennessee’s 1st congressional district as a Republican from 1799 to 1801; and the representative for Tennessee’s 1st congressional district as a Republican from 1797 to 1799.
![Photo of Sen. William Claiborne [D-LA, 1817-1817]](/static/legislator-photos/402547-200px.jpeg)
Primary Sources
The information on this page is originally sourced from a variety of materials, including:
- unitedstates/congress-legislators, a community project gathering congressional information
- United States Congressional Roll Call Voting Records, 1789-1990 by Howard L. Rosenthal and Keith T. Poole.
- Martis’s “The Historical Atlas of Political Parties in the United States Congress”, via Keith Poole’s roll call votes data set, for political party affiliation for Members of Congress from 1789 through about year 2000
- Biographical Directory of the United States Congress for the photo
