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Choctaw Chiefs

David Folsom

David Folsom (1791–1847) had served under Andrew Jackson in the War of 1812 and between 1826 and 1830 ruled over the Choctaws’ northeastern district as one of the Nation’s so-called “Medal Chiefs”  

George Washington Harkins

George Washington Harkins (1810–1861), a graduate of Centre College in Danville, Ky., succeeded his uncle Greenwood Leflore as principal Choctaw chief, serving from 1831 to 1834

Pierre Juzan (c. 1805–1841), a grandnephew of Chief Pushmataha (d. 1824), was a graduate of the Choctaw Academy in Kentucky 

Greenwood Leflore

Greenwood Leflore (1800–1865), a grandson of Chief Pushmataha, served as “Medal Chief” of the Choctaws’ northwestern district from 1822 to 1830 and then from 1830 to 1831 as the Nation’s principal chief               

Mushulatubbe

Mushulatubbe (d. 1838) had fought on the side of the U.S. in the Creek War (1813-14) and the War of 1812 and ruled the Nation’s northeastern district as a “Medal Chief” before being replaced by David Folsom in 1826

Nitakechi (1772-1845), a nephew of Chief Pushmataha, ruled the Nation’s Pushmataha District in the Choctaws’ western domain from 1834 to 1838

Officers of the United States government

Andrew Jackson

Andrew Jackson (1767-1845) of Tennessee was the seventh president of the United States, serving from 1829 to 1837

John Henry Eaton

John Henry Eaton (1790-1856) of Tennessee, a former U.S. senator, served as Jackson’s Secretary of War from 1829 to 1831

William Ward (1769-1836), a native of Maryland, had served as the U.S. Indian agent to the Choctaw Nation since 1821

David McClellan (1873-1858) of Tennessee served as the U.S. Indian subagent to the Western Choctaw Nation

Thomas Loraine McKenny

Thomas Loraine McKenney (1785-1859) served in the War Department as superintendent of Indian Affairs from 1824 to 1830 and later authored a three-volume History of the Indian Tribes of North America (1836-1844)

Others

John Donly was an Alabama mail contractor with Choctaw relations

David W. Haley (1793–1857) was a Mississippi mail contractor employed by Jackson as a personal emissary to the Choctaws

 

Middleton Mackey, a native of South Carolina, served as interpreter for the Choctaw Nation

John Pitchlynn (d. 1835), a white man who married a Choctaw woman, Sophia Folsom, had served as interpreter for the Choctaw Nation since 1786

 

Daniel W. Wright (1795-1844) was a lawyer and former Mississippi state legislator