Howell Tatum

Howell Tatum (died 1822) was a justice of the Tennessee Supreme Court from 1797 to 1798.

Born in North Carolina,^[1] Tatum was a soldier in the American Revolutionary War,^[2] serving as an ensign in the First North Carolina Regiment, Continental Line, in 1775.^[1]

He moved to Tennessee in the late 1780s or early 1790s, settling in the Mero District, which comprised Davidson, Sumner and Tennessee Counties.^[1] He served as treasurer of the district from 1794 to 1796, and was then Attorney General for the district from 1796 to 1797.^[1][2] He was appointed to the state supreme court in 1797, resigning the following year.^[2] He was a topographical engineer in the War of 1812.^[2]

Tatum was interred with full military honors on September 9, 1822.^[3]