{"id":11985,"date":"2014-06-28T09:55:21","date_gmt":"2014-06-28T14:55:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/?p=11985"},"modified":"2023-06-15T21:37:57","modified_gmt":"2023-06-16T02:37:57","slug":"houston-james-cleveland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/houston-james-cleveland\/","title":{"rendered":"HOUSTON, James Cleveland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>City: Selmer<\/p>\n<p><b>HOUSTON, James Cleveland, <\/b>lawyer; born McNairy Co., Tenn., Aug. 18,1867; Scotch-Irish descent; son of <b>Robert S.<\/b> and <b>Irene (Michie) HOUSTON<\/b>; father, farmer; paternal grandparents, <b>Robert C. <\/b>and <b>Rebecca (Chambers) HOUSTON, <\/b>maternal grandparents <b>George C. <\/b>and<b> Zilpha (Atkins) MICHIE;<\/b> educated at Henderson and Lebanon, Tenn.; in early life was a farmer and manager of a small mercantile business; at present he is engaged in the practice of law, and has small banking interests and owns some real estate; Democrat; State Senator of Tenn., 1901-1902; appointed to fill unexpired term in office of Co. Judge, 1908; former Mayor of Selmer, Tenn.; at present he is member of the State Democratic Executive Committee; married <b>Stella HARRIS,<\/b> Dec. 12, 1900; member Knights of Pythias and Christian church.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Source:<\/span><i style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0Who\u2019s Who in Tennessee: A Biographical Reference Book of Notable Tennesseans of To-Day<\/i><span style=\"color: #000000;\">. Memphis: Paul &amp; Douglas Co, 1911.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>City: Selmer HOUSTON, James Cleveland, lawyer; born McNairy Co., Tenn., Aug. 18,1867; Scotch-Irish descent; son of Robert S. and Irene (Michie) HOUSTON; father, farmer; paternal grandparents, Robert C. and Rebecca (Chambers) HOUSTON, maternal grandparents George C. and Zilpha (Atkins) MICHIE; educated at Henderson and Lebanon, Tenn.; in early life was a farmer and manager of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"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,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1677,4062,4419],"tags":[1428,694,994,4390,3419],"class_list":{"0":"post-11985","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-mcnairy","7":"category-whoswho","8":"category-x_featured-image-no","9":"tag-atkins","10":"tag-chambers","11":"tag-harris","12":"tag-houston","13":"tag-michie","14":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11985","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\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11985"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11985\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14028,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11985\/revisions\/14028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}