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Montedonico</b> — of Memphis, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TN/SH-lived.html">Shelby County</a>, Tenn. Born in Memphis, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TN/SH-born.html">Shelby County</a>, Tenn., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1852/04-04.html">April 4, 1852</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/banking.html">Banker</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/insurance.html">insurance business</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/IT-consuls.html">Consular Agent for Italy</a> in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TN/SH-consuls.html">Memphis, Tenn.</a>, 1875-77, 1892-96; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TN/ofc/stsen.html">Tennessee state senate</a>; elected 1884. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/italian.html">Italian</a> ancestry. Died, from <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/heart.html">heart disease</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/malaria.html">malaria</a>, in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/hotels.html">Hotel</a> Pilgrim, Plymouth, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/PL-died.html">Plymouth County</a>, Mass., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1909/09-08.html">September 8, 1909</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/57.html">57 years, 157 days</a>). Interment at Calvary Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Relatives:</i> Son of Louis Montedonico and Mary Magdalena (Signaigo) Montedonico; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1873/06-02.html">June 2, 1873</a>, to Annie Louisa Bacigalupo.</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>See also</i> <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/17366277">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <br clear="all"> <hr> <span style="font-size:16pt;"><b><a name="cms00365">Elmwood Cemetery</a></b></span><br> 824 S. Dudley St. <br> Memphis, Shelby County, Tennessee <br> Founded 1852<br> <table width=100% align="left" cellpadding=5> <tr><td colspan=2><span style="font-size:14pt;">Politicians buried here:</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>Edward Hull Crump (1874-1954)</b> — also known as <b>Edward H. Crump</b>; <b>Ed Crump</b>; <b>"Boss Crump"</b> — of Memphis, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TN/SH-lived.html">Shelby County</a>, Tenn. Born near Holly Springs, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MS/MR-born.html">Marshall County</a>, Miss., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1874/10-02.html">October 2, 1874</a>. Democrat. Head, E. H. Crump <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/automfg.html">Buggy Manufacturing</a> Co.; president, E. H. Crump & Co. (involved in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/banking.html">banking</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/realestate.html">real estate</a>, and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/insurance.html">insurance</a>); <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TN/ofc/memphis.html">mayor of Memphis, Tenn.</a>, 1910-16, 1940; resigned 1916; proceedings were brought for his <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">ouster</a> as mayor in 1915-16, based on <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">charges</a> that he <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/vice.html">failed to enforce</a> state <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/alcohol-crimes.html">liquor laws</a>; when the ouster suit was upheld by the state supreme court, he <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">resigned</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TN/SH-officials.html">Shelby County Treasurer</a>, 1917-23; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Tennessee, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1924/TN.html">1924</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1928/TN.html">1928</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1932/TN.html">1932</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1936/TN.html">1936</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1940/TN.html">1940</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1944/TN.html">1944</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TN/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Tennessee</a>, 1931-35 (10th District 1931-33, 9th District 1933-35); member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/TN.html">Democratic National Committee from Tennessee</a>, 1936-45. Died in Memphis, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TN/SH-died.html">Shelby County</a>, Tenn., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1954/10-16.html">October 16, 1954</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/80.html">80 years, 14 days</a>). Interment at Elmwood Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Relatives:</i> Married to Bessie Byrd McLean.</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>See also</i> <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=C000955">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=403067">Govtrack.us page</a></span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Books about Edward Hull Crump:</i> William D. Miller, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0313227810/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0313227810&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Mr. Crump of Memphis</a></span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>A. B. Taylor (1796-1866)</b> — of Memphis, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TN/SH-lived.html">Shelby County</a>, Tenn. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1796/index.html">1796</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TN/ofc/memphis.html">Mayor of Memphis, Tenn.</a>, 1852-55. One of the founders of Elmwood Cemetery. Died in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1866/index.html">1866</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/70.html">about 70 years</a>). Interment at Elmwood Cemetery. </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>John William Leftwich (1826-1870)</b> — also known as <b>John W. Leftwich</b> — of Memphis, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TN/SH-lived.html">Shelby County</a>, Tenn. Born in Liberty (now Bedford), <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/BE-born.html">Bedford County</a>, Va., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1826/09-07.html">September 7, 1826</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/merchant.html">Merchant</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TN/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Tennessee</a> 8th District, 1866-67; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TN/ofc/memphis.html">mayor of Memphis, Tenn.</a>, 1868-69, 1869-70. Died in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/ly-died.html">Lynchburg</a>, Va., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1870/03-06.html">March 6, 1870</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/43.html">43 years, 180 days</a>). Interment at Elmwood Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Relatives:</i> Son of Joel Leftwich and Mary L. (Thorpe) Leftwich; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1854/12-17.html">December 17, 1854</a>, to Gertrude Aurelia Wendle; great-grandnephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/leech-lehlbach.html#869.53.30">Jabez Leftwich</a>; second cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/breckinridge.html#446.25.19">Joseph Cabell Breckinridge</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cabana-cadwalader.html#794.87.46">Benjamin William Sheridan Cabell</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/breckinridge.html#913.15.69">Robert Jefferson Breckinridge</a>; third cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/breckinridge.html#923.82.77">John Cabell Breckinridge</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/harrison.html#656.69.21">Carter Henry Harrison</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/porter7.html#715.43.49">Peter Augustus Porter (1827-1864)</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cabana-cadwalader.html#372.07.63">William Lewis Cabell</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/breckinridge.html#891.83.83">Robert Jefferson Breckinridge Jr.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cabana-cadwalader.html#448.18.40">George Craighead Cabell</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/breckinridge.html#685.82.03">William Campbell Preston Breckinridge</a>; third cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/breckinridge.html#179.74.78">Clifton Rodes Breckinridge</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/porter7.html#905.50.52">Peter Augustus Porter (1853-1925)</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cabana-cadwalader.html#823.76.27">Benjamin Earl Cabell</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/harrison.html#988.40.79">Carter Henry Harrison II</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/handerson-hanlan.html#535.23.07">Levin Irving Handy</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/breckinridge.html#923.46.15">Desha Breckinridge</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/breckinridge.html#447.87.63">Henry Skillman Breckinridge</a>; third cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cabana-cadwalader.html#230.79.50">Earle Cabell</a>.</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"> <i>Political families:</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0012.html">Harrison-Randolph-Marshall-Cabell family</a> of Virginia; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0031.html">Breckinridge-Preston-Cabell-Floyd family</a> of Virginia; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0001.html">Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family</a> of Connecticut and New York (subsets of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>See also</i> <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=L000217">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=406721">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John W. Leftwich">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/7786786">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>Jacob Thompson (1810-1885)</b> — of Oxford, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MS/LY-lived.html">Lafayette County</a>, Miss. Born in Leasburg, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/CS-born.html">Caswell County</a>, N.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1810/05-15.html">May 15, 1810</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MS/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Mississippi</a>, 1839-51 (at-large 1839-47, 1st District 1847-51); <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/offices/cabinet.html">U.S. Secretary of the Interior</a>, 1857-61; served in the Confederate Army during the Civil War. Slaveowner. Died in Memphis, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TN/SH-died.html">Shelby County</a>, Tenn., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1885/03-24.html">March 24, 1885</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/74.html">74 years, 313 days</a>). Interment at Elmwood Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;">The World War II <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-ships.html">Liberty ship</a> <i>SS Jacob Thompson</i> (built 1943 at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/LA/OR-names.html">New Orleans, Louisiana</a>; scrapped 1968) was <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>.</li> </span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>See also</i> <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=T000203">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=410782">Govtrack.us page</a></span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>George W. Guess (c.1829-1868)</b> — of Dallas, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/DA-lived.html">Dallas County</a>, Tex. Born in North Carolina, about 1829. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; colonel in the Confederate Army during the Civil War; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/ofc/dallas.html">mayor of Dallas, Tex.</a>, 1866-68. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/masons.html">Freemasons</a>. Died of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/weather.html">sunstroke</a>, aboard a <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/on-ships.html">steamboat</a> on the Mississippi River, at a wharf in Memphis, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TN/SH-died.html">Shelby County</a>, Tenn., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1868/07-18.html">July 18, 1868</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/39.html">about 39 years</a>). Interment at Elmwood Cemetery. </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>Rowlett Paine (b. 1879)</b> — of Memphis, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TN/SH-lived.html">Shelby County</a>, Tenn. Born in Memphis, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TN/SH-born.html">Shelby County</a>, Tenn., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1879/12-22.html">December 22, 1879</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/food.html">Wholesale grocer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TN/ofc/memphis.html">mayor of Memphis, Tenn.</a>, 1920-27. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/methodist.html">Methodist</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/rotary.html">Rotary</a>. Interment at Elmwood Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Relatives:</i> Son of John James Paine and Elizabeth (Rowlett) Paine; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1918/">1918</a> to Anna Bell Hughes; nephew by marriage of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/gordon.html#799.48.29">George Washington Gordon</a>.</span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>Kenneth Douglas McKellar (1869-1957)</b> — also known as <b>Kenneth D. McKellar</b> — of Memphis, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TN/SH-lived.html">Shelby County</a>, Tenn. Born in Richmond, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/AL/DS-born.html">Dallas County</a>, Ala., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1869/01-29.html">January 29, 1869</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; candidate for Presidential Elector for Tennessee; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Tennessee, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1908/TN.html">1908</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1920/TN.html">1920</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1936/TN.html">1936</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1940/TN.html">1940</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1944/TN.html">1944</a> (<a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1944/speakers.html">speaker</a>); <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TN/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Tennessee</a> 10th District, 1911-17; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TN/ofc/ussen.html">U.S. Senator from Tennessee</a>, 1917-53. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/presbyterian.html">Presbyterian</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/masons.html">Freemasons</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/shriners.html">Shriners</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/odd-fellows.html">Odd Fellows</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/delta-kappa-epsilon.html">Delta Kappa Epsilon</a>. Died <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1957/10-25.html">October 25, 1957</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/88.html">88 years, 269 days</a>). Interment at Elmwood Cemetery; statue at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TN/SU-buried.html#cms07909">Tri-Cities Regional Airport</a>, Near Blountville, Sullivan County, Tenn. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>See also</i> <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=M000499">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=407494">Govtrack.us page</a></span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"><a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=iYdBkBWv0QsC&pg=PA153"><img src="https://politicalgraveyard.com/thumb/927/21.20.jpg" width=70 height=102 border=0 alt="Isham G. Harris"></a></td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>Isham Green Harris (1818-1897)</b> — also known as <b>Isham G. Harris</b> — of Memphis, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TN/SH-lived.html">Shelby County</a>, Tenn. Born near Tullahoma, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TN/FR-born.html">Franklin County</a>, Tenn., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1818/02-10.html">February 10, 1818</a>. Democrat. Member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TN/ofc/stsen.html">Tennessee state senate</a>, 1847; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TN/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Tennessee</a> 9th District, 1849-53; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TN/ofc/gov.html">Governor of Tennessee</a>, 1857-62; served in the Confederate Army during the Civil War; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TN/ofc/ussen.html">U.S. Senator from Tennessee</a>, 1877-97; died in office 1897. Slaveowner. Died in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DC/wa-died.html">Washington</a>, D.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1897/07-08.html">July 8, 1897</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/79.html">79 years, 148 days</a>). Interment at Elmwood Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>See also</i> <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=H000243">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=405121">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://www.nga.org/governor/isham-green-harris/">National Governors Association biography</a></span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Books about Isham G. Harris:</i> Sam Davis Elliott, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0807134902/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0807134902&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Isham G. Harris of Tennessee: Confederate Governor and United States Senator</a></span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Image source:</i> American Monthly Review of Reviews, August 1897</span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>James Chamberlain Jones (1809-1859)</b> — also known as <b>James C. Jones</b>; <b>"Lean Jimmy"</b> — of Memphis, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TN/SH-lived.html">Shelby County</a>, Tenn. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TN/DA-born.html">Davidson County</a>, Tenn., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1809/04-20.html">April 20, 1809</a>. Member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TN/ofc/sthse.html">Tennessee state house of representatives</a>, 1839; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TN/ofc/gov.html">Governor of Tennessee</a>, 1841-45; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TN/ofc/ussen.html">U.S. Senator from Tennessee</a>, 1851-57. Slaveowner. Died <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1859/10-29.html">October 29, 1859</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/50.html">50 years, 192 days</a>). Interment at Elmwood Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>See also</i> <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=J000229">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=406122">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://www.nga.org/governor/james-chamberlain-jones/">National Governors Association biography</a></span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>Andrew Jackson Donelson (1799-1871)</b> — also known as <b>Andrew J. Donelson</b> — of Nashville, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TN/DA-lived.html">Davidson County</a>, Tenn.; Memphis, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TN/SH-lived.html">Shelby County</a>, Tenn. Born in Nashville, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TN/DA-born.html">Davidson County</a>, Tenn., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1799/08-25.html">August 25, 1799</a>. Whig. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; U.S. Charge d'Affaires to <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/ofc/diplo.html ">Texas Republic</a>, 1844-45; U.S. Minister to <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/GR-diplomats.html ">Prussia</a>, 1846-49; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/offices/pres-vp.html">Vice President of the United States</a>, 1856. Died, of a <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/heart.html">heart attack</a>, in Memphis, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TN/SH-died.html">Shelby County</a>, Tenn., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1871/06-26.html">June 26, 1871</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/71.html">71 years, 305 days</a>). Interment at Elmwood Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Presumably named for:</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/jackson1.html#174.79.95">Andrew Jackson</a></span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Relatives:</i> Son of Samuel Donelson and Mary Polly (Smith) Donelson; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1824/09-16.html">September 16, 1824</a>, to Emily Tennessee Donelson; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1841/">1841</a> to Elizabeth (Martin) Randolph (widow of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/randolph.html#946.12.53">Meriwether Lewis Randolph</a>); nephew of Rachel Donelson (who married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/jackson1.html#174.79.95">Andrew Jackson</a>); grandson of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/smith2.html#856.95.09">Daniel Smith</a>; first cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/caesar-caillavet.html#390.85.05">Donelson Caffery</a>; first cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/caesar-caillavet.html#188.71.60">Charles Duval Caffery</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/caesar-caillavet.html#173.92.75">John Murphy Caffery</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/caesar-caillavet.html#500.77.91">Edward Caffery</a>; first cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/caesar-caillavet.html#452.24.72">Jefferson Caffery</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/caesar-caillavet.html#804.12.17">Patrick Thomson Caffery</a>.</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"> <i>Political family:</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0081.html">Caffery family</a> of Louisiana (subset of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>See also</i> <a href="https://history.state.gov/departmenthistory/people/donelson-andrew-jackson ?">U.S. State Dept career summary</a> — <a href="https://tennesseeencyclopedia.net/entries/andrew-jackson-donelson/">Tennessee Encyclopedia</a></span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Books about Andrew Jackson Donelson:</i> Mark R. Cheathem, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0807132381/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0807132381&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Old Hickory's Nephew: The Political and Private Struggles of Andrew Jackson Donelson</a></span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>Stephen Adams (1807-1857)</b> — of Aberdeen, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MS/MO-lived.html">Monroe County</a>, Miss. Born in Pendleton District (now <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/AN-born.html">Anderson County</a>), S.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1807/10-17.html">October 17, 1807</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TN/ofc/stsen.html">Tennessee state senate</a>, 1833-34; circuit judge in Mississippi, 1837-45, 1848; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MS/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Mississippi</a> at-large, 1845-47; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MS/ofc/sthse.html">Mississippi state house of representatives</a>, 1850; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MS/ofc/cncn.html">delegate to Mississippi state constitutional convention</a>, 1851; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MS/ofc/ussen.html">U.S. Senator from Mississippi</a>, 1852-57. Slaveowner. Died in Memphis, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TN/SH-died.html">Shelby County</a>, Tenn., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1857/05-11.html">May 11, 1857</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/49.html">49 years, 206 days</a>). Interment at Elmwood Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>See also</i> <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=A000048">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=400709">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen Adams">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/7750572">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>Spencer Jarnagin (1792-1853)</b> — of Knoxville, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TN/KX-lived.html">Knox County</a>, Tenn.; Athens, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TN/MM-lived.html">McMinn County</a>, Tenn.; Memphis, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TN/SH-lived.html">Shelby County</a>, Tenn. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TN/GA-born.html">Grainger County</a>, Tenn., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1792/index.html">1792</a>. Whig. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TN/ofc/sthse.html">Tennessee state house of representatives</a>, 1833-35; candidate for Presidential Elector for Tennessee; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TN/ofc/ussen.html">U.S. Senator from Tennessee</a>, 1843-47. Slaveowner. Became ill with <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/cholera.html">cholera</a>, subjected to "heroic treatment" by his doctor, and died, in Memphis, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TN/SH-died.html">Shelby County</a>, Tenn., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1853/06-25.html">June 25, 1853</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/60.html">about 60 years</a>). Interment at Elmwood Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Relatives:</i> Son of Chesley Jarnagin and Martha (Barton) Jarnagin.</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>See also</i> <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=J000059">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=405964">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spencer Jarnagin">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/7750587">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>Thomas Battle Turley (1845-1910)</b> — also known as <b>Thomas B. Turley</b> — of Memphis, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TN/SH-lived.html">Shelby County</a>, Tenn. Born in Tennessee, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1845/index.html">1845</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TN/ofc/ussen.html">U.S. Senator from Tennessee</a>, 1897-1901. Died in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1910/index.html">1910</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/65.html">about 65 years</a>). Interment at Elmwood Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>See also</i> <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=T000412">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=410981">Govtrack.us page</a></span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>Robert Bruce Macon (1859-1925)</b> — also known as <b>Robert B. Macon</b> — of Helena (now part of Helena-West Helena), <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/AR/PH-lived.html">Phillips County</a>, Ark. Born near Trenton, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/AR/PH-born.html">Phillips County</a>, Ark., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1859/07-06.html">July 6, 1859</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/AR/ofc/sthse.html">Arkansas state house of representatives</a>, 1883-87; prosecuting attorney, 1st Circuit, 1898-1902; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/AR/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Arkansas</a> 1st District, 1903-13. Died in Marvell, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/AR/PH-died.html">Phillips County</a>, Ark., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1925/10-09.html">October 9, 1925</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/66.html">66 years, 95 days</a>). Interment at Elmwood Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>See also</i> <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=M000035">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=407063">Govtrack.us page</a></span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>William Graham Swan (1821-1869)</b> — also known as <b>William G. Swan</b> — of Knoxville, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TN/KX-lived.html">Knox County</a>, Tenn. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1821/index.html">1821</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; circuit judge in Tennessee, 1840; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TN/ofc/attygn.html">Tennessee state attorney general</a>, 1851; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TN/ofc/knoxville.html">mayor of Knoxville, Tenn.</a>, 1855-56; served in the Confederate Army during the Civil War; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TN/ofc/ccrep.html">Representative from Tennessee in the Confederate Congress</a>, 1862-65. Died <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1869/04-18.html">April 18, 1869</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/47.html">about 47 years</a>). Interment at Elmwood Cemetery. </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>David Maney Currin (1817-1864)</b> — of Tennessee. Born in Murfreesboro, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TN/RU-born.html">Rutherford County</a>, Tenn., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1817/11-11.html">November 11, 1817</a>. Member of Tennessee state legislature, 1851; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TN/ofc/cpdel.html">Delegate from Tennessee to the Confederate Provisional Congress</a>, 1861-62; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TN/ofc/ccrep.html">Representative from Tennessee in the Confederate Congress</a>, 1862-64; died in office 1864. Died in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/rm-died.html">Richmond</a>, Va., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1864/03-25.html">March 25, 1864</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/46.html">46 years, 135 days</a>). Interment at Elmwood Cemetery. </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>Hiram Casey Young (1828-1899)</b> — also known as <b>H. Casey Young</b> — of Memphis, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TN/SH-lived.html">Shelby County</a>, Tenn. Born in Alabama, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1828/index.html">1828</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TN/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Tennessee</a> 10th District, 1875-81, 1883-85. Died in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1899/index.html">1899</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/71.html">about 71 years</a>). Interment at Elmwood Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>See also</i> <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=Y000037">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=411969">Govtrack.us page</a></span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>Joseph Brown Heiskell (1823-1913)</b> — of Tennessee. Born in Knoxville, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TN/KX-born.html">Knox County</a>, Tenn., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1823/11-05.html">November 5, 1823</a>. Member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TN/ofc/stsen.html">Tennessee state senate</a>, 1858; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TN/ofc/ccrep.html">Representative from Tennessee in the Confederate Congress</a>, 1862-64; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TN/ofc/cncn.html">delegate to Tennessee state constitutional convention</a>, 1870; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TN/ofc/attygn.html">Tennessee state attorney general</a>, 1870-78. Died in Memphis, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TN/SH-died.html">Shelby County</a>, Tenn., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1913/03-07.html">March 7, 1913</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/89.html">89 years, 122 days</a>). Interment at Elmwood Cemetery. </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>James Trezvant (c.1782-1841)</b> — of Virginia. Born in Virginia, about 1782. Member of Virginia state legislature, 1820; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Virginia</a> 2nd District, 1825-31. Slaveowner. Died <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1841/09-02.html">September 2, 1841</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/59.html">about 59 years</a>). Interment at Elmwood Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>See also</i> <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=T000365">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=412112">Govtrack.us page</a></span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>James Phelan (1856-1891)</b> — of Memphis, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TN/SH-lived.html">Shelby County</a>, Tenn. Born in Aberdeen, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MS/MO-born.html">Monroe County</a>, Miss., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1856/12-07.html">December 7, 1856</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TN/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Tennessee</a> 10th District, 1887-91; died in office 1891. Died in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/BI-died.html">Bahamas</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1891/01-30.html">January 30, 1891</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/34.html">34 years, 54 days</a>). Interment at Elmwood Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>See also</i> <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=P000289">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=408689">Govtrack.us page</a></span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>William Henry Carroll (1810-1868)</b> — also known as <b>William H. Carroll</b> — of Memphis, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TN/SH-lived.html">Shelby County</a>, Tenn. Born in Nashville, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TN/DA-born.html">Davidson County</a>, Tenn., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1810/index.html">1810</a>. Democrat. Postmaster at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TN/ofc/memphis.html#2">Memphis, Tenn.</a>, 1853-60; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Tennessee, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1860/TN.html">1860</a>; general in the Confederate Army during the Civil War; Gen. Braxton Bragg had him <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">arrested</a> for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/intoxication.html">drunkenness</a>, and he <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">resigned</a> from the army. Died in Montreal, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/QB-died.html">Quebec</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1868/05-03.html">May 3, 1868</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/57.html">about 57 years</a>). Interment at Elmwood Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Relatives:</i> Son of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/carroll.html#572.64.15">William Carroll</a> and Cecilia (Bradford) Carroll; brother of Mary Catherine Carroll (who married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/norval-nova.html#781.86.58">Caleb Cushing Norvell</a>); father of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/carroll.html#813.72.47">William Henry Carroll (1842-1915)</a>.</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"> <i>Political family:</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10760.html">Conway-Norvell-Johnson-Carroll family</a>.</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>See also</i> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William Henry Carroll">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/10842">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>James Ronald Chalmers (1831-1898)</b> — also known as <b>James R. Chalmers</b> — of Vicksburg, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MS/WR-lived.html">Warren County</a>, Miss. Born near Lynchburg, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/HX-born.html">Halifax County</a>, Va., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1831/01-12.html">January 12, 1831</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Mississippi, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1852/MS.html">1852</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MS/ofc/seccn.html">delegate to Mississippi secession convention</a>, 1861; general in the Confederate Army during the Civil War; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MS/ofc/stsen.html">Mississippi state senate</a>, 1876-77; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MS/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Mississippi</a>, 1877-82, 1884-85 (6th District 1877-82, 2nd District 1884-85). Slaveowner. Died, from complications of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/influenza.html">grippe</a>, in Memphis, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TN/SH-died.html">Shelby County</a>, Tenn., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1898/04-09.html">April 9, 1898</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/67.html">67 years, 87 days</a>). Interment at Elmwood Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Relatives:</i> Son of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/chalfant-chamberlin.html#206.35.42">Joseph Williams Chalmers</a>; brother of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/chalfant-chamberlin.html#197.16.57">H. H. Chalmers</a>; nephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/chalfant-chamberlin.html#588.62.47">John Gordon Chalmers</a>.</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"> <i>Political family:</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10246.html">Chalmers family</a> of Mississippi.</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>See also</i> <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=C000272">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=402415">Govtrack.us page</a></span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>George Washington Gordon (1836-1911)</b> — also known as <b>George W. Gordon</b> — of Memphis, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TN/SH-lived.html">Shelby County</a>, Tenn. Born in Pulaski, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TN/GL-born.html">Giles County</a>, Tenn., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1836/10-05.html">October 5, 1836</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/engineer.html">Civil engineer</a>; general in the Confederate Army during the Civil War; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">lawyer</a>; Tennessee Railroad Commissioner, 1883-85; Special U.S. Indian Agent in Arizona and Nevada, 1885-89; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/teacher.html">superintendent of schools</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TN/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Tennessee</a> 10th District, 1907-11; died in office 1911. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/un-confed-vets.html">United Confederate Veterans</a>. Slaveowner. Died, from <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/asthma.html">asthma</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/kidney.html">uremia</a>, in Memphis, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TN/SH-died.html">Shelby County</a>, Tenn., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1911/08-09.html">August 9, 1911</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/74.html">74 years, 308 days</a>). Interment at Elmwood Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Presumably named for:</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/washington.html#466.36.08">George Washington</a></span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Relatives:</i> Married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1876/">1876</a> to Ora Susan Paine; uncle by marriage of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/paine.html#819.38.37">Rowlett Paine</a>.</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>See also</i> <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=G000310">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=404668">Govtrack.us page</a></span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>Joseph Hunter Bryan (1782-1839)</b> — of North Carolina. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/MA-born.html">Martin County</a>, N.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1782/04-09.html">April 9, 1782</a>. Member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/ofc/comm.html">North Carolina house of commons</a>, 1804-05, 1807-09; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from North Carolina</a> 2nd District, 1815-19. Slaveowner. Died in La Grange, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TN/FA-died.html">Fayette County</a>, Tenn., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1839/12-28.html">December 28, 1839</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/57.html">57 years, 263 days</a>). Interment at Elmwood Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Relatives:</i> Son of Joseph Bryan and Mary (Hunter) Bryan; brother of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bryan.html#250.96.27">Henry Hunter Bryan</a>; married to Sarah Burlingham; third cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bryan.html#691.71.09">Needham Bryan</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bryan.html#719.75.84">Hardy Bryan</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/whitehurst-whiticar.html#729.59.44">Bryan Whitfield</a>; third cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bryan.html#281.39.20">Lovard Bryan</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/whitehurst-whiticar.html#824.51.81">Nathan Bryan Whitfield (1799-1868)</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/whitehurst-whiticar.html#265.15.55">James Bryan Whitfield (1809-1841)</a>; third cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/whitehurst-whiticar.html#489.15.51">Nathan Bryan Whitfield (1835-1914)</a>; third cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/whitehurst-whiticar.html#937.65.31">James Bryan Whitfield (1860-1948)</a>.</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"> <i>Political family:</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/12156.html">Bryan-Whitfield family</a> of North Carolina.</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>See also</i> <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=B000990">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=401942">Govtrack.us page</a></span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>Asa Hodges (1822-1900)</b> — of Little Rock, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/AR/PU-lived.html">Pulaski County</a>, Ark. Born near Moulton, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/AL/LW-born.html">Lawrence County</a>, Ala., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1822/01-22.html">January 22, 1822</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/AR/ofc/cncn.html">Delegate to Arkansas state constitutional convention</a>, 1867; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/AR/ofc/sthse.html">Arkansas state house of representatives</a>, 1868; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/AR/ofc/stsen.html">Arkansas state senate</a>, 1870; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/AR/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Arkansas</a> 1st District, 1873-75; delegate to Republican National Convention from Arkansas, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1876/AR.html">1876</a>. Slaveowner. Died <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1900/06-06.html">June 6, 1900</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/78.html">78 years, 135 days</a>). Interment at Elmwood Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>See also</i> <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=H000671">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=405525">Govtrack.us page</a></span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>Henry Cousins Chambers (1823-1871)</b> — of Mississippi. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/AL/LI-born.html">Limestone County</a>, Ala., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1823/07-26.html">July 26, 1823</a>. Member of Mississippi state legislature, 1859; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MS/ofc/ccrep.html">Representative from Mississippi in the Confederate Congress</a>, 1862-65. Killed <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/laire-lamartine.html#506.12.14">William Augustus Lake</a>, his opponent for the Confederate Congress, in a <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/duel-participants.html">duel</a> on October 15, 1861, at Hopefield, Ark. Died in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MS/BO-died.html">Bolivar County</a>, Miss., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1871/05-01.html">May 1, 1871</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/47.html">47 years, 279 days</a>). Interment at Elmwood Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Relatives:</i> Son of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/chambers.html#610.78.69">Henry H. Chambers</a>.</span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>William Claiborne Dunlap (1798-1872)</b> — of Knoxville, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TN/KX-lived.html">Knox County</a>, Tenn.; Bolivar, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TN/HR-lived.html">Hardeman County</a>, Tenn. Born in Knoxville, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TN/KX-born.html">Knox County</a>, Tenn., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1798/02-25.html">February 25, 1798</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TN/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Tennessee</a> 13th District, 1833-37; circuit judge in Tennessee, 1840-49; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TN/ofc/stsen.html">Tennessee state senate</a>, 1851-57; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TN/ofc/sthse.html">Tennessee state house of representatives</a>, 1857-59. Slaveowner. Died near Memphis, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TN/SH-died.html">Shelby County</a>, Tenn., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1872/11-16.html">November 16, 1872</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/74.html">74 years, 265 days</a>). Interment at Elmwood Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>See also</i> <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=D000544">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=403652">Govtrack.us page</a></span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>William Tecumsah Avery (1819-1880)</b> — of Tennessee. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TN/HR-born.html">Hardeman County</a>, Tenn., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1819/11-11.html">November 11, 1819</a>. Democrat. Member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TN/ofc/sthse.html">Tennessee state house of representatives</a>, 1843; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TN/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Tennessee</a> 10th District, 1857-61; colonel in the Confederate Army during the Civil War. Slaveowner. Accidentally <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/drowning.html">drowned</a> in Ten Mile Bayou, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/AR/CT-died.html">Crittenden County</a>, Ark., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1880/05-22.html">May 22, 1880</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/60.html">60 years, 193 days</a>). Interment at Elmwood Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>See also</i> <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=A000347">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=400998">Govtrack.us page</a></span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>Frank Hoyt Gailor (1892-1954)</b> — of Memphis, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TN/SH-lived.html">Shelby County</a>, Tenn. Born in Sewanee, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TN/FR-born.html">Franklin County</a>, Tenn., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1892/05-09.html">May 9, 1892</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/rhodes-scholars.html">Rhodes scholar</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">lawyer</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TN/ofc/sthse.html">Tennessee state house of representatives</a>, 1921; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TN/ofc/stsen.html">Tennessee state senate</a>, 1923; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TN/SH-officials.html">Shelby County Attorney</a>, 1936-41; circuit judge in Tennessee, 1941-42; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TN/ofc/spju.html">justice of Tennessee state supreme court</a>, 1942-48. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/alpha-tau-omega.html">Alpha Tau Omega</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/am-legion.html">American Legion</a>. Died in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1954/index.html">1954</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/62.html">about 62 years</a>). Interment at Elmwood Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Relatives:</i> Son of Ellen Douglas (Cunningham) Gailor and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/gagliardi-gainer.html#717.60.85">Thomas Frank Gailor</a>; brother of Ellen Douglas Gailor (daughter-in-law of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cleveland.html#531.34.01">Grover Cleveland</a>; who married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cleveland.html#024.00.71">Richard Folsom Cleveland</a>); married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1922/08-09.html">August 9, 1922</a>, to Mary Louise Pennel.</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"> <i>Political family:</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0001.html">Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family</a> of Connecticut and New York (subset of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>See also</i> <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/113060019">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>Jeremiah Watkins Clapp (1814-1898)</b> — of Mississippi. Born in Abingdon, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/WA-born.html">Washington County</a>, Va., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1814/09-24.html">September 24, 1814</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MS/ofc/seccn.html">Delegate to Mississippi secession convention</a>, 1861; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MS/ofc/ccrep.html">Representative from Mississippi in the Confederate Congress</a>, 1862-64. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/presbyterian.html">Presbyterian</a>. Died in Memphis, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TN/SH-died.html">Shelby County</a>, Tenn., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1898/09-05.html">September 5, 1898</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/83.html">83 years, 346 days</a>). Interment at Elmwood Cemetery. </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>William Jay Smith (1823-1913)</b> — also known as <b>William J. Smith</b> — of Memphis, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TN/SH-lived.html">Shelby County</a>, Tenn. Born in Birmingham, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/ED-born.html">England</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1823/09-24.html">September 24, 1823</a>. Republican. Served in the U.S. Army during the Mexican War; served in the Union Army during the Civil War; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TN/ofc/cncn.html">delegate to Tennessee state constitutional convention</a>, 1865; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TN/ofc/sthse.html">Tennessee state house of representatives</a>, 1865-67; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TN/ofc/stsen.html">Tennessee state senate</a>, 1867-69, 1885-87; delegate to Republican National Convention from Tennessee, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1868/TN.html">1868</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1876/TN.html">1876</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TN/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Tennessee</a> 8th District, 1869-71; defeated, 1870; U.S. Surveyor of Customs, 1875-81. Slaveowner. Died in Memphis, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TN/SH-died.html">Shelby County</a>, Tenn., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1913/11-29.html">November 29, 1913</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/90.html">90 years, 66 days</a>). Interment at Elmwood Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>See also</i> <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=S000632">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=410106">Govtrack.us page</a></span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>James Patton Anderson (1822-1872)</b> — of Hernando, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MS/DS-lived.html">DeSoto County</a>, Miss.; Olympia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WA/TH-lived.html">Thurston County</a>, Wash.; near Monticello, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/FL/JF-lived.html">Jefferson County</a>, Fla.; Memphis, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TN/SH-lived.html">Shelby County</a>, Tenn. Born near Winchester, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TN/FR-born.html">Franklin County</a>, Tenn., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1822/02-16.html">February 16, 1822</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; colonel in the U.S. Army during the Mexican War; member of Mississippi state legislature, 1850; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WA/ofc/cgdel.html">Delegate to U.S. Congress from Washington Territory</a>, 1855-57; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/FL/ofc/seccn.html">delegate to Florida secession convention</a>, 1861; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/FL/ofc/cpdel.html">Delegate from Florida to the Confederate Provisional Congress</a>, 1861; general in the Confederate Army during the Civil War. Slaveowner. Died in Memphis, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TN/SH-died.html">Shelby County</a>, Tenn., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1872/09-20.html">September 20, 1872</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/50.html">50 years, 217 days</a>). Interment at Elmwood Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>See also</i> <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=A000192">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=400847">Govtrack.us page</a></span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>Henry Thomas Ellett (1812-1887)</b> — also known as <b>Henry T. Ellett</b> — of Port Gibson, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MS/CI-lived.html">Claiborne County</a>, Miss. Born in Salem, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/SA-born.html">Salem County</a>, N.J., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1812/03-08.html">March 8, 1812</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MS/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Mississippi</a> at-large, 1847; member of Mississippi state legislature, 1850. Slaveowner. Died suddenly while delivering an <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/meetings.html">address of welcome</a> to President <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cleveland.html#531.34.01">Grover Cleveland</a> in Memphis, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TN/SH-died.html">Shelby County</a>, Tenn., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1887/10-15.html">October 15, 1887</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/75.html">75 years, 221 days</a>). Interment at Elmwood Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>See also</i> <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=E000116">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=403807">Govtrack.us page</a></span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>John W. Farley (1878-1942)</b> — of Memphis, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TN/SH-lived.html">Shelby County</a>, Tenn. Born <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1878/03-04.html">March 4, 1878</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TN/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Tennessee</a>, 1916; delegate to Republican National Convention from Tennessee, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1916/TN.html">1916</a> (alternate), <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1924/TN.html">1924</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/kappa-alpha-ord.html">Kappa Alpha Order</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/masons.html">Freemasons</a>. Led drive to <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/univfound.html">establish</a> the West Tennessee Normal School (now University of Memphis) in 1912. Died, of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/pneumonia.html">pneumonia</a> and severe <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/other-diseases.html">arthritis</a>, November, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1942/index.html">1942</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/64.html">64 years, 0 days</a>). Interment at Elmwood Cemetery. </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>Alexander M. Arzeno (d. 1878)</b> — of Newport, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/MO-lived.html">Monroe County</a>, Mich. Member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/ofc/sthse.html">Michigan state house of representatives</a> from Monroe County, 1847; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/ofc/cncn4.html">delegate to Michigan state constitutional convention</a>, 1850; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/ofc/stsen.html">Michigan state senate</a> 8th District, 1853-54. Died, of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/yellow-fever.html">yellow fever</a>, in Memphis, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TN/SH-died.html">Shelby County</a>, Tenn., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1878/11-19.html">November 19, 1878</a>. Interment at Elmwood Cemetery. </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>Josiah Thomas Settle (1850-1915)</b> — also known as <b>Josiah T. Settle</b>; <b>Joe Settle</b> — of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MS/PA-lived.html">Panola County</a>, Miss.; Memphis, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TN/SH-lived.html">Shelby County</a>, Tenn. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/RC-born.html">Rockingham County</a>, N.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1850/09-30.html">September 30, 1850</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; delegate to Republican National Convention from Mississippi, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1876/MS.html">1876</a>; candidate for Presidential Elector for Mississippi; alternate delegate to Republican National Convention from Tennessee, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1896/TN.html">1896</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1900/TN.html">1900</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1912/TN.html">1912</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/african.html">African</a> ancestry. Died, from <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/tuberculosis.html">tuberculosis</a>, in Memphis, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TN/SH-died.html">Shelby County</a>, Tenn., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1915/08-16.html">August 16, 1915</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/64.html">64 years, 320 days</a>). Interment at Elmwood Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Relatives:</i> Son of Josiah Thomas Settle (1799-1869) and Nancy Ann (Graves) Settle; married to Theresa T. Vogelsang; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1890/">1890</a> to Frances McCullough.</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>See also</i> <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/98132176">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>Merrill Parrish Hudson (d. 1967)</b> — also known as <b>Merrill P. Hudson</b>; <b>Mrs. Asaph R. Hudson</b> — of Memphis, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TN/SH-lived.html">Shelby County</a>, Tenn. Democrat. Alternate delegate to Democratic National Convention from Tennessee, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1936/TN.html">1936</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1940/TN.html">1940</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/female.html">Female</a>. Died <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1967/05-04.html">May 4, 1967</a>. Interment at Elmwood Cemetery. </td></tr> <tr><td colspan=2><span style="font-size:14pt;">Politicians formerly buried here:</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>Landon Carter Haynes (1816-1875)</b> — also known as <b>Landon C. Haynes</b> — of Tennessee. Born in Elizabethton, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TN/CA-born.html">Carter County</a>, Tenn., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1816/12-02.html">December 2, 1816</a>. Member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TN/ofc/stsen.html">Tennessee state senate</a>, 1847; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TN/ofc/sthse.html">Tennessee state house of representatives</a>, 1849-51; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TN/ofc/hspkr.html">Speaker of the Tennessee State House of Representatives</a>, 1849-51; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TN/ofc/ccsen.html">Senator from Tennessee in the Confederate Congress</a>, 1862-65. Died in Memphis, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TN/SH-died.html">Shelby County</a>, Tenn., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1875/02-17.html">February 17, 1875</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/58.html">58 years, 77 days</a>). Original interment at Elmwood Cemetery; reinterment in 1902 at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TN/MD-buried.html#cms04265">Jackson Cemetery</a>, Jackson, Tenn. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Relatives:</i> Uncle of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/harris6.html#485.40.88">Nathaniel Edwin Harris</a>.</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"> <i>Political family:</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/11078.html">Taylor family</a> of Tennessee.</span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>Nathan Bedford Forrest (1821-1877)</b> — also known as <b>"Wizard of the Saddle"</b> — of Memphis, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TN/SH-lived.html">Shelby County</a>, Tenn. Born near Chapel Hill, Bedford County (now <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TN/MS-born.html">Marshall County</a>), Tenn., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1821/07-13.html">July 13, 1821</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/cotton.html">Cotton</a> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/farmer.html">planter</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/slavetrade.html">slave trader</a>; general in the Confederate Army during the Civil War; in April 1864, after the Battle of Fort Pillow, Tennessee, Confederate troops under his command <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/murder-mayhem.html">massacred</a> African-American Union soldiers, not accepting them as prisoners, since the Confederacy <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/hatred.html">refused to recognize</a> ex-slaves as legitimate combatants; this event, seen as a <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/military.html">war crime</a>, sparked <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">outrage</a> across the North, and a congressional <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">inquiry</a>; in 1867, he became involved in the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/hatred.html">Ku Klux Klan</a> and was elected Grand Wizard; the organization used violent tactics to <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/extortion.html">intimidate Black voters</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/vote-fraud.html">suppress their votes</a>; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Tennessee, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1868/TN.html">1868</a>; in 1869, he had a change of heart, and issued a letter ordering that the Klan be dissolved and its costumes destroyed; he went on to denounce the group and its crimes; in 1875, he gave a "friendly speech" to a meeting of an African-American organization in Memphis, calling for peace, harmony, and economic advancement of former slaves; for this speech, he was vehemently denounced in the Southern press. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/english.html">English</a> ancestry. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/kkk.html">Ku Klux Klan</a>. After his death, he became a folk hero among white Southerners, particularly during the imposition of Jim Crow segregation laws in the early 20th century, and later, in reaction to the Civil Rights movement in the 1950s and 1960s. Slaveowner. Died, from complications of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/diabetes.html">diabetes</a>, in Memphis, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TN/SH-died.html">Shelby County</a>, Tenn., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1877/10-29.html">October 29, 1877</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/56.html">56 years, 108 days</a>). Original interment at Elmwood Cemetery; reinterment in 1904 at <a href="# ">Health Sciences Park</a>; memorial monument at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/FL-buried.html#cms00890">Myrtle Hill Cemetery</a>, Rome, Ga.; memorial monument at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/AL/DS-buried.html#cms00181">Live Oak Cemetery</a>, Selma, Ala. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Relatives:</i> Son of William B. Forrest and Miriam (Beck) Forrest; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1845/">1845</a> to Mary Ann Montgomery.</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MS/FO.html">Forrest County, Miss.</a> is named for him.</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;">The <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-cities.html">city</a> of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/AR/SF-names.html">Forrest City, Arkansas</a>, is <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>.  — The World War II <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-ships.html">Liberty ship</a> <i>SS Nathan B. Forrest</i> (built 1943 at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/FL/BA-names.html">Panama City, Florida</a>; scrapped 1973) was <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>.</li> </span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>See also</i> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nathan Bedford Forrest">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/355">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <br clear="all"> <hr> <span style="font-size:16pt;"><b><a name="cms02731">Forest Hill Cemetery Midtown</a></b></span><br> 1661 Elvis Presley Boulevard <br> Memphis, Shelby County, Tennessee <br> See also <a href="http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=cr&CRid=12057&">Findagrave page</a> for this location. <table width=100% align="left" cellpadding=5> <tr><td colspan=2><span style="font-size:14pt;">Politicians buried here:</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/politicalgraveyard/3572536026/"><img src="https://politicalgraveyard.com/thumb/008/85.15.jpg" width=70 height=85 border=0 alt="Luke E. Wright"></a></td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>Luke Edward Wright (1846-1922)</b> — also known as <b>Luke E. Wright</b> — of Memphis, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TN/SH-lived.html">Shelby County</a>, Tenn. Born in Memphis, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TN/SH-born.html">Shelby County</a>, Tenn., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1846/08-29.html">August 29, 1846</a>. Served in the Confederate Army during the Civil War; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">lawyer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TN/ofc/attygn.html">Tennessee state attorney general</a>, 1870-78; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PI/ofc/gov.html">Governor-General of the Philippine Islands</a>, 1904-05; U.S. Ambassador to <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/JP-diplomats.html ">Japan</a>, 1906-07; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/offices/cabinet.html">U.S. Secretary of War</a>, 1908-09. Died in Memphis, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TN/SH-died.html">Shelby County</a>, Tenn., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1922/11-17.html">November 17, 1922</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/76.html">76 years, 80 days</a>). Interment at Forest Hill Cemetery Midtown. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Relatives:</i> Son of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/wright1.html#172.77.57">Archibald W. Wright</a>; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1868/">1868</a> to Katherine Middleton 'Kate' Semmes.</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>See also</i> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luke Edward Wright">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://history.state.gov/departmenthistory/people/wright-luke-edward ?">U.S. State Dept career summary</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/15082360">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Image source:</i> American Monthly Review of Reviews, December 1902</span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>Walter Chandler (1887-1967)</b> — also known as <b>Clift Chandler</b> — of Memphis, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TN/SH-lived.html">Shelby County</a>, Tenn. Born in Jackson, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TN/MD-born.html">Madison County</a>, Tenn., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1887/10-05.html">October 5, 1887</a>. Democrat. Member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TN/ofc/sthse.html">Tennessee state house of representatives</a>, 1917; served in the U.S. Army during World War I; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TN/ofc/stsen.html">Tennessee state senate</a>, 1921-23; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TN/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Tennessee</a> 9th District, 1935-40; resigned 1940; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TN/ofc/memphis.html">mayor of Memphis, Tenn.</a>, 1940-46, 1955; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Tennessee, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1940/TN.html">1940</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1944/TN.html">1944</a> (member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1944/committees.html">Credentials Committee</a>). <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/episcopalian.html">Episcopalian</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/aba.html">American Bar Association</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/phi-kappa-phi.html">Phi Kappa Phi</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/sigma-alpha-epsilon.html">Sigma Alpha Epsilon</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/masons.html">Freemasons</a>. Died in Memphis, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TN/SH-died.html">Shelby County</a>, Tenn., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1967/10-01.html">October 1, 1967</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/79.html">79 years, 361 days</a>). Interment at Forest Hill Cemetery Midtown. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Relatives:</i> Son of William Henry Chandler and Knoxie (Clift) Chandler; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1925/10-10.html">October 10, 1925</a>, to Dorothy Wyeth.</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>See also</i> <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=C000296">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=402438">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/7787082">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"><a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=nJVdCsi0HsEC&pg=PA144"><img src="https://politicalgraveyard.com/thumb/444/69.64.jpg" width=70 height=105 border=0 alt="Malcolm R. Patterson"></a></td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>Malcolm Rice Patterson (1861-1935)</b> — also known as <b>Malcolm R. Patterson</b> — of Memphis, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TN/SH-lived.html">Shelby County</a>, Tenn. Born in Somerville, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/AL/MR-born.html">Morgan County</a>, Ala., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1861/06-07.html">June 7, 1861</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TN/SH-officials.html">Shelby County District Attorney</a>, 1894-1900; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TN/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Tennessee</a> 10th District, 1901-06; resigned 1906; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TN/ofc/gov.html">Governor of Tennessee</a>, 1907-11. Died in Sarasota, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/FL/SA-died.html">Sarasota County</a>, Fla., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1935/03-08.html">March 8, 1935</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/73.html">73 years, 274 days</a>). Interment at Forest Hill Cemetery Midtown. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Relatives:</i> Son of Josephine (Rice) Patterson and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/patterson.html#162.21.72">Josiah Patterson</a>.</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>See also</i> <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=P000126">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=408534">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://www.nga.org/governor/malcolm-rice-patterson/">National Governors Association biography</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/6877004">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Image source:</i> American Monthly Review of Reviews, August 1908</span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>Clifford Davis (1897-1970)</b> — of Memphis, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TN/SH-lived.html">Shelby County</a>, Tenn. Born in Hazlehurst, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MS/CP-born.html">Copiah County</a>, Miss., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1897/11-18.html">November 18, 1897</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; city judge in Tennessee, 1923-27; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TN/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Tennessee</a>, 1940-65 (9th District 1940-43, 10th District 1943-53, 9th District 1953-65). <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/baptist.html">Baptist</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/masons.html">Freemasons</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/shriners.html">Shriners</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/sigma-alpha-epsilon.html">Sigma Alpha Epsilon</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/moose.html">Moose</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/elks.html">Elks</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/ord-ahepa.html">Order of Ahepa</a>. Died in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DC/wa-died.html">Washington</a>, D.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1970/06-08.html">June 8, 1970</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/72.html">72 years, 202 days</a>). Interment at Forest Hill Cemetery Midtown. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Relatives:</i> Son of Odom A. Davis and Jessie Davis; married to Carolyn Leigh.</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>See also</i> <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=D000094">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=403231">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/7787053">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>John Ethridge McCall (1859-1920)</b> — also known as <b>John E. McCall</b> — of Lexington, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TN/HN-lived.html">Henderson County</a>, Tenn. Born in Clarksburg, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TN/CR-born.html">Carroll County</a>, Tenn., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1859/08-14.html">August 14, 1859</a>. Republican. Member of Tennessee state legislature, 1890; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TN/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Tennessee</a> 8th District, 1895-97; delegate to Republican National Convention from Tennessee, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1900/TN.html">1900</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TN/ofc/usdjud.html">U.S. District Judge for the Western District of Tennessee</a>, 1905-20; died in office 1920. Died in Huntingdon, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TN/CR-died.html">Carroll County</a>, Tenn., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1920/08-08.html">August 8, 1920</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/60.html">60 years, 360 days</a>). Interment at Forest Hill Cemetery Midtown. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Relatives:</i> Son of Mildren (Connally) McCall and Henry M. McCall; married to Mary Adaline Timberlake.</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>See also</i> <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=M000304">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=407318">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://www.fjc.gov/servlet/nGetInfo?jid=1520&cid=999&ctype=na&instate=na">federal judicial profile</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/100062652">Find-A-Grave memorial</a> — <a href="https://www.fjc.gov/history/judges/mccall-john-ethridge">Biographical Directory of Federal Judges</a></span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>Harry Bennett Anderson (1879-1935)</b> — of Memphis, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TN/SH-lived.html">Shelby County</a>, Tenn. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/VB-born.html">Van Buren County</a>, Mich., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1879/11-05.html">November 5, 1879</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/TN.html">Tennessee Republican State Executive Committee</a>, 1904-10; candidate for Presidential Elector for Tennessee; colonel in the U.S. Army during World War I; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TN/ofc/usdjud.html">U.S. District Judge for the Western District of Tennessee</a>, 1926-35; died in office 1935. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/elks.html">Elks</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/masons.html">Freemasons</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/odd-fellows.html">Odd Fellows</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/am-legion.html">American Legion</a>. Died, from a <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/heart.html">heart ailment</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/pneumonia.html">pneumonia</a>, in Crook <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/nursing-homes.html">Sanitarium</a>, Jackson, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TN/MD-died.html">Madison County</a>, Tenn., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1935/04-09.html">April 9, 1935</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/55.html">55 years, 155 days</a>). Interment at Forest Hill Cemetery Midtown. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Relatives:</i> Son of Seneca Benjamin Anderson and Achsah Adelaide (Bennett) Anderson; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1908/10-08.html">October 8, 1908</a>, to Patty Crook.</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>See also</i> <a href="https://www.fjc.gov/servlet/nGetInfo?jid=45&cid=999&ctype=na&instate=na">federal judicial profile</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/27959778">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>Josiah Patterson (1837-1904)</b> — of Memphis, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TN/SH-lived.html">Shelby County</a>, Tenn. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/AL/MR-born.html">Morgan County</a>, Ala., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1837/04-14.html">April 14, 1837</a>. Democrat. Member of Tennessee state legislature, 1870; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TN/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Tennessee</a> 10th District, 1891-97. Slaveowner. Died in Memphis, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TN/SH-died.html">Shelby County</a>, Tenn., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1904/02-10.html">February 10, 1904</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/66.html">66 years, 302 days</a>). Interment at Forest Hill Cemetery Midtown. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Relatives:</i> Married to Josephine Rice; father of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/patterson.html#444.69.64">Malcolm Rice Patterson</a>.</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>See also</i> <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=P000124">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=408532">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/7787065">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>William Robert Moore (1830-1909)</b> — of Memphis, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TN/SH-lived.html">Shelby County</a>, Tenn. Born near Huntsville, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/AL/MA-born.html">Madison County</a>, Ala., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1830/03-28.html">March 28, 1830</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/clothing.html">Dry goods merchant</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TN/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Tennessee</a> 10th District, 1881-83; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TN/ofc/sthse.html">Tennessee state house of representatives</a>, 1889-91. Through a bequest, he <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/univfound.html">founded</a> William R. Moore College of Technology (now Moore Tech). Died in Memphis, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TN/SH-died.html">Shelby County</a>, Tenn., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1909/06-12.html">June 12, 1909</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/79.html">79 years, 76 days</a>). Interment at Forest Hill Cemetery Midtown. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Relatives:</i> Son of Robert Cleveland Moore and Mary F. (Lingow) Moore; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1878/02-14.html">February 14, 1878</a>, to Charlotte Heywood Blood.</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>See also</i> <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=M000924">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=407895">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William Robert Moore">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/7787091">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>Hugh Chalmers (1876-1928)</b> — Born <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1876/03-06.html">March 6, 1876</a>. Member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/AR/ofc/sthse.html">Arkansas state house of representatives</a>, 1921-24; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/AR/ofc/stsen.html">Arkansas state senate</a> 32nd District, 1927-28. Died <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1928/08-26.html">August 26, 1928</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/52.html">52 years, 173 days</a>). Interment at Forest Hill Cemetery Midtown. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Relatives:</i> Married to Ardine Hayes.</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>See also</i> <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/108526256">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>Walter Preston Armstrong (1884-1949)</b> — also known as <b>Walter P. Armstrong</b> — of Memphis, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TN/SH-lived.html">Shelby County</a>, Tenn. Born in Pittsboro, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MS/CU-born.html">Calhoun County</a>, Miss., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1884/10-26.html">October 26, 1884</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; alternate delegate to Democratic National Convention from Tennessee, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1928/TN.html">1928</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1940/TN.html">1940</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/methodist.html">Methodist</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/aba.html">American Bar Association</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/sigma-chi.html">Sigma Chi</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/phi-delta-phi.html">Phi Delta Phi</a>. Died <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1949/07-27.html">July 27, 1949</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/64.html">64 years, 274 days</a>). Interment at Forest Hill Cemetery Midtown. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Relatives:</i> Son of George Wells Armstrong and May (Cruthirds) Armstrong; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1912/11-12.html">November 12, 1912</a>, to Irma Waddell.</span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <br clear="all"> <hr> <span style="font-size:16pt;"><b><a name=" ">Health Sciences Park</a></b></span><br> Memphis, Shelby County, Tennessee <br> <table width=100% align="left" cellpadding=5> <tr><td colspan=2><span style="font-size:14pt;">Politicians buried here:</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>Nathan Bedford Forrest (1821-1877)</b> — also known as <b>"Wizard of the Saddle"</b> — of Memphis, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TN/SH-lived.html">Shelby County</a>, Tenn. Born near Chapel Hill, Bedford County (now <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TN/MS-born.html">Marshall County</a>), Tenn., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1821/07-13.html">July 13, 1821</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/cotton.html">Cotton</a> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/farmer.html">planter</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/slavetrade.html">slave trader</a>; general in the Confederate Army during the Civil War; in April 1864, after the Battle of Fort Pillow, Tennessee, Confederate troops under his command <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/murder-mayhem.html">massacred</a> African-American Union soldiers, not accepting them as prisoners, since the Confederacy <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/hatred.html">refused to recognize</a> ex-slaves as legitimate combatants; this event, seen as a <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/military.html">war crime</a>, sparked <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">outrage</a> across the North, and a congressional <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">inquiry</a>; in 1867, he became involved in the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/hatred.html">Ku Klux Klan</a> and was elected Grand Wizard; the organization used violent tactics to <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/extortion.html">intimidate Black voters</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/vote-fraud.html">suppress their votes</a>; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Tennessee, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1868/TN.html">1868</a>; in 1869, he had a change of heart, and issued a letter ordering that the Klan be dissolved and its costumes destroyed; he went on to denounce the group and its crimes; in 1875, he gave a "friendly speech" to a meeting of an African-American organization in Memphis, calling for peace, harmony, and economic advancement of former slaves; for this speech, he was vehemently denounced in the Southern press. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/english.html">English</a> ancestry. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/kkk.html">Ku Klux Klan</a>. After his death, he became a folk hero among white Southerners, particularly during the imposition of Jim Crow segregation laws in the early 20th century, and later, in reaction to the Civil Rights movement in the 1950s and 1960s. Slaveowner. Died, from complications of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/diabetes.html">diabetes</a>, in Memphis, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TN/SH-died.html">Shelby County</a>, Tenn., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1877/10-29.html">October 29, 1877</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/56.html">56 years, 108 days</a>). Original interment at <a href="#cms00365">Elmwood Cemetery</a>; reinterment in 1904 at Health Sciences Park; memorial monument at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/FL-buried.html#cms00890">Myrtle Hill Cemetery</a>, Rome, Ga.; memorial monument at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/AL/DS-buried.html#cms00181">Live Oak Cemetery</a>, Selma, Ala. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Relatives:</i> Son of William B. Forrest and Miriam (Beck) Forrest; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1845/">1845</a> to Mary Ann Montgomery.</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MS/FO.html">Forrest County, Miss.</a> is named for him.</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;">The <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-cities.html">city</a> of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/AR/SF-names.html">Forrest City, Arkansas</a>, is <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>.  — The World War II <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-ships.html">Liberty ship</a> <i>SS Nathan B. Forrest</i> (built 1943 at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/FL/BA-names.html">Panama City, Florida</a>; scrapped 1973) was <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>.</li> </span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>See also</i> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nathan Bedford Forrest">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/355">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <br clear="all"> <hr> <span style="font-size:16pt;"><b><a name="cms06282">National Cemetery</a></b></span><br> Memphis, Shelby County, Tennessee <br> <table width=100% align="left" cellpadding=5> <tr><td colspan=2><span style="font-size:14pt;">Politicians buried here:</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>George William Grider (1912-1991)</b> — also known as <b>George W. Grider</b>; <b>"Gindy"</b> — of Memphis, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TN/SH-lived.html">Shelby County</a>, Tenn.; Niagara Falls, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NI-lived.html">Niagara County</a>, N.Y.; Memphis, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TN/SH-lived.html">Shelby County</a>, Tenn. Born in Memphis, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TN/SH-born.html">Shelby County</a>, Tenn., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1912/10-01.html">October 1, 1912</a>. Democrat. Served in the U.S. Navy during World War II; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">lawyer</a>; county judge in Tennessee, 1959-64; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TN/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Tennessee</a> 9th District, 1965-67. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/methodist.html">Methodist</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/am-legion.html">American Legion</a>. Died in Memphis, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TN/SH-died.html">Shelby County</a>, Tenn., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1991/03-20.html">March 20, 1991</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/78.html">78 years, 170 days</a>). Interment at National Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>See also</i> <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=G000454">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=404799">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George W. Grider">Wikipedia article</a></span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <br clear="all"> <hr> <span style="font-size:16pt;"><b><a name="cms05854">New Park Cemetery</a></b></span><br> Memphis, Shelby County, Tennessee <br> <table width=100% align="left" cellpadding=5> <tr><td colspan=2><span style="font-size:14pt;">Politicians buried here:</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>Thomas Oscar Fuller Sr. (1867-1942)</b> — also known as <b>Thomas O. Fuller, Sr.</b> — of Wilmington, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/NH-lived.html">New Hanover County</a>, N.C.; Memphis, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TN/SH-lived.html">Shelby County</a>, Tenn. Born in Franklinton, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/FR-born.html">Franklin County</a>, N.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1867/10-25.html">October 25, 1867</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/clergy.html">Minister</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/ofc/stsen.html">North Carolina state senate</a>; elected 1898; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/writing.html">historian</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/african.html">African</a> ancestry. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/naacp.html">NAACP</a>. Died in Memphis, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TN/SH-died.html">Shelby County</a>, Tenn., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1942/06-21.html">June 21, 1942</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/74.html">74 years, 239 days</a>). Interment at New Park Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Relatives:</i> Son of J. Henderson Fuller and Mary Eliza Fuller.</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;">T.O. Fuller <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-parks.html">State Park</a>, in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TN/SH-names.html">Memphis, Tennessee</a>, is <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>.</li> </span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>See also</i> <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/52652883">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <br clear="all"> <hr> <span style="font-size:16pt;"><b><a name="cms07329">Winchester Park (former Cemetery)</a></b></span><br> Memphis, Shelby County, Tennessee <br> <table width=100% align="left" cellpadding=5> <tr><td colspan=2><span style="font-size:14pt;">Politicians buried here:</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>Marcus Brutus Winchester (1796-1856)</b> — also known as <b>Marcus B. Winchester</b> — of Memphis, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TN/SH-lived.html">Shelby County</a>, Tenn. Born <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1796/03-28.html">March 28, 1796</a>. Served in the U.S. Army during the War of 1812; postmaster at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TN/ofc/memphis.html#2">Memphis, Tenn.</a>, 1823-49; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TN/ofc/memphis.html">mayor of Memphis, Tenn.</a>, 1827-29; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TN/ofc/sthse.html">Tennessee state house of representatives</a>, 1851. Died <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1856/11-02.html">November 2, 1856</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/60.html">60 years, 219 days</a>). 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