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Tennessee (USA) outlawed the practice of duelling.

Governor Archibald Roanne signed the act outlawing the 'evil pracive of duelling.'

They were the first US state to put such legislation into practice.

Andrew Jackson, a future President of the United States was a leading Tennessee politician at the time.

	He could not have been very pleased with the turn of events...

He could not have been very pleased with the turn of events as he was probably more widely known as a duelist.

He was always keen to pick a fight in the name of his wife's honour.

1806, Logan County, Kentucky is the place of his first duel.

WILLS, FIRST AID [1913]

His opponent fired upon him first and actually broke a number of his ribs in doing so.

Jackson was able to take aim and fire killing his foe despite this.

The duel had been the result Charles Dickinson suggesting Jackson's wife was a bigamist.

This was an unfortunate misreading of the divorce she had secured from her first husband in 1791.

His duelling ways took a toll upon him by 1821 (at the age of 54) he had also participated in a shoot out. He had a bullet lodged beside his heart and another had smashed his arm.

	Rachel his wife dies in 1829, the same year he is elected as President of the United States.

Rachel his wife dies in 1829, the same year he is elected as President of the United States.

Although Tenesse had outlawed the pursuit it was still mighty popular and in New Orleans seems almost a pastime.

There it was not until 1855 the police decided it might be best for the purposes of law and order to actually stop the practice, not that it had a great deal of effect for a number of years.

	ON THIS DAY...

By 1890 though the organised duelling contest was all but done.