The Principal Chiefs of the Cherokee (Main body or Eastern) Prior to 1907
Moytog (1736)
Attacullaculla (died 1778)
Oconostata (died 1785)
Tassel (killed July 1788)
Hanging Neaughe
Blackfox
Pathkiller
William Hicks (Chief for only one year 1827)
John Ross (1828-1866)
William Potter Ross
Rev. Lewis Downing
William Potter Ross (Second term)
Ochalata
Dennis Wolf Bushyhead
Joel Bryan Mayes
Thomas Mitchell Buffington
William Charles Rogers
John Brown
John Jolly
John Rogers
The last named was deposed in 1839 and his property at Grand Saline was confiscated by the Ross or Anti-Treaty Party. He was grandfather of the above last Chief of the Cherokees William Charles Rogers. (Note: last Chief until soverignty was re-established by Pres. Richard Nixon in the 1970's.)
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