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Biography
Boyd M. Cheatham (c. 1838-1876) was an American politician from Tennessee.
Early life
Boyd M. Cheatham was born circa 1838. His father was one of seven early settlers from Virginia who moved to Robertson County, Tennessee. His uncle, Anderson Cheatham, served in the Tennessee House of Representatives from 1801 to 1809, then from 1819 to 1821 and again from 1823 to 1825.
His brother, Richard Boone Cheatham (1824-1877), served as the Mayor of Nashville, Tennessee from 1860 to 1862. His other brother Edward Saunders Cheatham (1818-1878), served in the Tennessee House of Representatives from 1853 to 1855, and then served as a member of the Tennessee Senate from 1855 to 1857, and again from 1861 to 1863. Another brother, Dr William Archer Cheatham (1820-1900), became the third husband of Adelicia Acklen (1817–1887), who owned the Belmont Mansion in Nashville.
Career
Cheatham served in the Tennessee House of Representatives in the nineteenth century.
Death
Cheatham died at his residence in Springfield, Tennessee on July 19, 1876. He was thirty-eight years old.