{"id":1002,"date":"2012-08-22T23:27:34","date_gmt":"2012-08-23T04:27:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/?p=1002"},"modified":"2023-06-15T21:30:13","modified_gmt":"2023-06-16T02:30:13","slug":"foust-james-leonidas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/foust-james-leonidas\/","title":{"rendered":"FOUST, James Leonidas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>City: Chattanooga<\/p>\n<p><strong>FOUST, James Leonidas<\/strong>, lawyer; born Hamilton County, Tenn., December 9, 1867; son <strong>William Henry and Elizabeth (Wisdom) FOUST<\/strong>; German, French, English and Irish descent; graduated Emory and Henry College 1891; Cumberland University LL.B. 1892; admitted to bar of Hamilton County 1892; opened law office same year in Chattanooga; member K. of P. (Past Chancellor Commander); member Tennessee State Senate in Fifty-fourth and Fifty-fifth General Assemblies; first elected 1904, re-elected 1906; 1909 formed law partnership with <strong>W. H. PAYNE<\/strong> under firm name of Foust &amp; Payne; author of Anti-Race Track Gambling Bill, which was passed in 1907, and became a law February 8, 1907.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>City: Chattanooga FOUST, James Leonidas, lawyer; born Hamilton County, Tenn., December 9, 1867; son William Henry and Elizabeth (Wisdom) FOUST; German, French, English and Irish descent; graduated Emory and Henry College 1891; Cumberland University LL.B. 1892; admitted to bar of Hamilton County 1892; opened law office same year in Chattanooga; member K. of P. (Past [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,151,4410,4419],"tags":[738,740,739],"class_list":{"0":"post-1002","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-cumberland-university","7":"category-hamilton","8":"category-surname-f","9":"category-x_featured-image-no","10":"tag-foust","11":"tag-payne","12":"tag-wisdom","13":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1002","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1002"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1002\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15102,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1002\/revisions\/15102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}