|Portrait of Cannon by Washington B. Cooper| |8th Governor of
Tennessee| October 12, 1835 – October 14, 1839 |Preceded
by||William Carroll| |Succeeded by||James K. Polk| |Member of
the U.S. House of Representatives from Tennessee's 5th district
September 16, 1814 – March 3, 1817 |Preceded by||Felix Grundy|
|Succeeded by||Thomas Claiborne| March 4, 1819 – March 3, 1823
|Preceded by||Thomas Claiborne| |Succeeded by||Robert Allen| May
22, 1781| Guilford County, North Carolina |Died||September 16,
1841 Williamson County, Tennessee |Resting place||Newton Cannon
Cemetery Williamson County, Tennessee |Political
party||Democratic-Republican Party |Spouse(s)||Leah Pryor
Perkins (1813–1816, her death) Rachel Starnes Willborn
(1818–1841, his death) |Years of service||1812–1813| Newton
Cannon (May 22, 1781 – September 16, 1841) was an American
politician who served as Governor of Tennessee from 1835 to
1839. He also served several terms in the United States House of
Representatives, from 1814 to 1817, and from 1819 to 18