See Also: retrospect(1)(dictionary)
retrospect(2)(dictionary)
retrospect(dictionary)
Blount's disease(medicine)
Blount, Walter(medicine)
Blount, William(encyclopedia)
Blount-Barber disease(medicine)
Blount Memorial Hospital(health)

Blount, William (sh) and retrospect(1) (iou)


Blount, William (sh)




born March 26, 1749, Bertie county, N.C.
died March 21, 1800, Knoxville, Tenn., U.S.

U.S. politician.

He served in the American Revolution before being elected to six terms in the North Carolina legislature. He was a delegate to the Constitutional Convention. As the first governor of lands ceded to the U.S. by North Carolina, he worked to secure statehood for what would become Tennessee. In 1796 he became one of Tennessee's first two senators, but he was expelled from the Senate in 1797 on charges of plotting to help the British gain control of Spanish Florida and Louisiana.


retrospect(1) (iou)



retrospect noun. E17.
[After PROSPECT noun by substitution of prefix: see RETRO-.]
(A) regard or Reference to a fact, authority, precedent, etc. E17.
b. Application to past time. E18.
A survey or review of past times or events, esp. those relating to a particular subject or within one's own life or experience; the action of surveying the past thus. M17.
in retrospect on reflection, when looked back on, with hindsight.
E. Pound Recapitulation and retrospect.
b. A backward look or view. rare. L17.