Thomas A. Claiborne

Thomas Augustine Claiborne (b. 1770s–1818) was an American physician and Tennessee state legislator. Claiborne studied medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. For a time he worked as United States Navy surgeon. He and his brother William C. C. Claiborne married sisters who were daughters of land speculator William Terrell Lewis. Claiborne married Sarah Terrell Lewis in Davidson County, Tennessee in 1801. He was elected to the Tennessee House of Representatives from Davidson county in 1803.^: 47 In January 1805 he was a signatory to a petition protesting the court-martial of Thomas Butler, probably produced at the behest of Andrew Jackson and sent to Thomas Jefferson's government, recorded in official state papers under the title "Disobedience of Orders Justified on the Grounds of Illegality."

Claiborne was secretary for the Treaty of the Chickasaw Nation signed near the Duck River, on July 23, 1805. In 1810, Claiborne sold an enslaved man named Pachile in Adams County, Mississippi Territory for $523 to Christopher Adams. In 1811, Claiborne served as "surgeon" on George Poindexter's side of the duel that killed Abijah Hunt in Mississippi.

Thomas A. Claiborne died in approximately 1818. After Claiborne and his wife died, future U.S. President Andrew Jackson became guardian to his two sons, W. F. Claiborne and M. L. Claiborne. Claiborne's daughter Mary Eliza Tennessee Claiborne married a Tennessee state legislator named Abram Poindexter Maury; Mary Eliza Claiborne Maury had nine children with her husband.