City: Nashville
DICKINSON, Jacob McGavock, Secretary of War; born Columbus, Miss., January 30, 1851; son of Henry and Anna (McGavock) DICKINSON; paternal grandparents William R. and Mary (Johnson) DICKINSON, maternal grandparents Jacob and Louisa (Grundy) MCGAVOCK; graduated University of Nashville, A. B., 1871; A.M., 1872; studied law at Columbia University, New York, University of Leipzig and in Paris; received LL.D. at Columbia University in 1905, University of Illinois in 1905 and Yale University in 1909; married Martha OVERTON, April 20, 1876; President American Bar Association, 1907-1908; member of Chicago and Iroquois Clubs of Chicago; admitted to bar 1874; practiced in Nashville, 1874-99; Chicago, 1899-1909; served several times by special commission on Supreme bench of Tennessee; Assistant Attorney General of United States, 1895-97; Counsel for United States before Alaskan Boundary Tribunal, 1903; General Counsel for Illinois Central Railway, 1901-09; Secretary of War in Cabinet of President TAFT from March 12, 1909; resigned 1911.
Source: Who’s Who in Tennessee: A Biographical Reference Book of Notable Tennesseans of To-Day. Memphis: Paul & Douglas Co, 1911.
