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PORTER, James Davis<\/b>, attorney-at-law; born Dec. 7, 1828; son of Thomas Kennedy and Geraldine (Horton) PORTER<\/b>; father physician; paternal grandparents William and Hanna (Kennedy) PORTER<\/b>; maternal grandparents Josiah and Nancy (White) HORTON<\/b>; educated at Paris, Tenn., graduated from Univ. of Nashville, A. B., 1846; LL.D. conferred 1880; married Susana DUNLOP<\/b>, 1851; admitted to bar in 1852; was first president of Hermitage Club, Nashville, Tenn.; member Tenn Legislature 1859-60; member Constitutional Convention, 1870; Adjt-Gen. Cheatham\u2019s Div. and Corps, C. S. A.; Asst. Secy. Of State during first administration of Cleveland; U. S. Minister to Republic of Chili during Cleveland\u2019s 2nd<\/sup> administration; was for ten years President of Peabody College and Chancellor Univ. of Nashville, having resigned from both institutions in 1910; was largely instrumental in establishing Peabody College in 1875, having secured large appropriations for its endowment; was elected judge of the 12th<\/sup> Circuit of Tenn., for a term of eight years; resigned after serving three and a half years; elected Governor of Tenn. in 1874, re-elected in 1876; President Chattanooga R. R. Co. in 1879; re-elected for four succeeding years; he now lives in retirement at his early home.<\/p>\n Source:\u00a0Who\u2019s Who in Tennessee: A Biographical Reference Book of Notable Tennesseans of To-Day<\/i>. Memphis: Paul & Douglas Co, 1911.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" City: Paris PORTER, James Davis, attorney-at-law; born Dec. 7, 1828; son of Thomas Kennedy and Geraldine (Horton) PORTER; father physician; paternal grandparents William and Hanna (Kennedy) PORTER; maternal grandparents Josiah and Nancy (White) HORTON; educated at Paris, Tenn., graduated from Univ. of Nashville, A. B., 1846; LL.D. conferred 1880; married Susana DUNLOP, 1851; admitted to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15372,"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,"footnotes":""},"categories":[162,363,181,541,4062,4418],"tags":[3627,1647,912,201,4347],"class_list":{"0":"post-11050","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-davidson","8":"category-henry","9":"category-peabody-college","10":"category-university-of-nashville","11":"category-whoswho","12":"category-x_featured-image-yes","13":"tag-dunlop","14":"tag-horton","15":"tag-kennedy","16":"tag-porter","17":"tag-white","18":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11050","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11050"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11050\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14463,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11050\/revisions\/14463"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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