04 Nov 2018 Albert Smith Marks ALBERT SMITH MARKS was born in Davies County, Kentucky. Moving to Winchester, Tennessee at the age of nineteen, he studied law and was admitted to the Bar in 1858. Although… National Governors Association
04 Nov 2018 Alvin Hawkins ALVIN HAWKINS was born in Bath County, Kentucky and moved with his family to Tennessee at an early age. After attending Bethel College, he studied law and was admitted to… National Governors Association
04 Nov 2018 William Brimage Bate WILLIAM BRIMAGE BATE was born near Castalian Springs, Tennessee. At the age of sixteen, after the death of his father, he left school and became a clerk on a steamboat… National Governors Association
04 Nov 2018 Robert Love Taylor ROBERT LOVE TAYLOR was born in Happy Valley, Tennessee. His family left Tennessee when the Civil War broke out, living briefly near Philadelphia before moving to Washington, DC, where his… National Governors Association
04 Nov 2018 John Price Buchanan JOHN PRICE BUCHANAN was born in Williamson, Tennessee. As a teenager he enlisted in the Confederate Army, serving until the Civil War ended. He then farmed and raised stock near… National Governors Association
04 Nov 2018 Peter Turney Born in Jasper, Tennessee, PETER TURNEY moved with his family to Winchester at an early age. He studied law under his father, a distinguished U.S. Representative and Senator, and was… National Governors Association
04 Nov 2018 Benton McMillin BENTON MC MILLIN was born in Monroe County, Kentucky. After studying at Kentucky University (later Transylvania University), he read law and was admitted to the Tennessee Bar in 1871, beginning… National Governors Association
04 Nov 2018 James Beriah Frazier JAMES BERIAH FRAZIER was born in Pikeville, Tennessee. He attended Franklin College near Nashville and graduated from the University of Tennessee in 1878. He studied law while teaching school and… National Governors Association
04 Nov 2018 John Isaac Cox JOHN ISAAC COX was born in Blountville, Tennessee. His father died in the Civil War when he was just seven, and he became his mother's sole source of support from… National Governors Association
04 Nov 2018 Malcolm Rice Patterson MALCOLM RICE PATTERSON was born in Somerville, Alabama, and moved with his parents to Memphis at the age of eleven. After attending Christian Brothers College and Vanderbilt University, he was… National Governors Association
04 Nov 2018 Ben Walter Hooper Born on Big Pigeon River in Cocke County, Tennessee, BEN WALTER HOOPER was in his mother's custody during his earliest years and at the age of eight was placed in… National Governors Association
04 Nov 2018 Thomas Clarke Rye THOMAS CLARKE RYE was born in Camden, Tennessee and educated in the Benton County schools. He studied law with his uncle, Thomas C. Morris, in Charlotte, Tennessee, and was admitted… National Governors Association