City: Jackson
BUFORD, John W., lawyer; public official; born at Franklin, Tenn., Sept. 10, 1871; English and Scotch- Irish descent; nephew of Gen. Albert Sidney JOHNSON; son of John W. and Emma Sidney (Byers) BUFORD; educated Southwestern Baptist University, Jackson, Tenn., and University of Tenn., Knoxville, Tenn.; read law in law office; admitted to bar in 1895; in early life was Deputy Clerk Supreme Court; married Mary Elizabeth ROBERTSON, Sept. 21, 1898; former Clerk of the Supreme Court, Western Division; former owner and publisher of Jackson (Tenn.) Daily Democrat.
