{"id":295,"date":"2013-07-25T23:30:22","date_gmt":"2013-07-26T03:30:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/carroll\/?p=295"},"modified":"2017-06-10T07:24:34","modified_gmt":"2017-06-10T12:24:34","slug":"grissam-clyde-b-1881","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/carroll\/grissam-clyde-b-1881\/","title":{"rendered":"GRISSAM, Clyde (b. 1881)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">City: McKenzie<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><strong>GRISSAM, Clyde<\/strong>, lawyer; industrial journalism; born Brownville [sic], Haywood Co. Tenn., March 15, 1881; son of\u00a0<strong>M.M. and Julia (Brown) GRISSAM<\/strong>; English descent; attended Brownsville High school and Vanderbilt Law school; member of I.O.O.F., D.T.D. Frat.; nominated for legislature by Haywood Co. Republicans, 1902; defeated; nominated Republicans of Carroll Co., for legislature 1908; elected over H.M. Mebane, rusion [sic] candidate to 56th assembly; one of the floor leaders; member of Rules Committee; Chairman of Com. Federal Relations; author of Act, creating Tenn., Public Highway Commission; practiced law in Brownsville for three years as member of firm of <strong>Nunn and Grissam<\/strong>; located in Carroll Co., in 1904; engaged in practice of law and ; [sic] practiced law in Huntingdon, Tenn., from 1904 to 1905; moved to McKenzie, Tenn., 1906; Early business, newsboy; Republican.<\/span><\/p>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Source:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/\" target=\"_blank\"><i>Who&#8217;s Who in Tennessee: A Biographical Reference Book of Notable Tennesseans of To-Day<\/i><\/a>. Memphis: Paul &amp; Douglas Co, 1911.<\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>City: McKenzie GRISSAM, Clyde, lawyer; industrial journalism; born Brownville [sic], Haywood Co. Tenn., March 15, 1881; son of\u00a0M.M. and Julia (Brown) GRISSAM; English descent; attended Brownsville High school and Vanderbilt Law school; member of I.O.O.F., D.T.D. Frat.; nominated for legislature <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/carroll\/grissam-clyde-b-1881\/\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[79,78],"tags":[75,103,104],"class_list":["post-295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biography","category-mckenzie","tag-brown","tag-grissam","tag-nunn"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/carroll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/carroll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/carroll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/carroll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/carroll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=295"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/carroll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":427,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/carroll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295\/revisions\/427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/carroll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/carroll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/carroll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}