Connally Findlay Trigg

Connally Findlay Trigg (March 8, 1810 – April 25, 1880) was a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Tennessee, the United States District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee and the United States District Court for the Western District of Tennessee. Education and career Born on March 8, 1810, in Abingdon, Virginia, Trigg read law in 1833. He entered private practice in Abingdon until 1856. He was a town councilman for Abingdon starting in 1835. He was clerk of the Washington County, Virginia Court from 1838 to 1852. Trigg was elected to the Virginia Constitutional Convention of 1850, one of four chosen for the delegate district including his home Washington County and Smyth and Wythe Counties. A Whig, he ran for the United States House of Representatives in 1855, but was defeated by the Democratic incumbent, Fayette McMullen. He continued private practice in Knoxville, Tennessee from 1856 to 1861. From 1856 to 1861, he was in partnership with Oliver Perry Temple. Unionist