{"id":1217,"date":"2012-09-02T10:03:07","date_gmt":"2012-09-02T15:03:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/?p=1217"},"modified":"2023-06-15T21:56:07","modified_gmt":"2023-06-16T02:56:07","slug":"smith-william-templeton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/smith-william-templeton\/","title":{"rendered":"SMITH, William Templeton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>City:\u00a0 Chattanooga<\/p>\n<p><strong>SMITH, William Templeton<\/strong>,<strong> <\/strong>lawyer; born White Co., Tenn., Feb. 14, 1858;\u00a0 French-Irish-German and English descent; son of <strong>W. G. <\/strong>and <strong>Amanda R. (Templeton) SMITH<\/strong>; father\u2019s occupation, merchant, lawyer; paternal grandparents, <strong>George C.<\/strong> and <strong>Martha (Gooch) SMITH<\/strong>, maternal grandparents, <strong>William<\/strong> and <strong>Lydia (Anderson) TEMPLETON<\/strong>; educated in common schools, and Burritt College; in early life worked on farm and clerked in store; married <strong>Joan BOYD<\/strong>, Dec. 11, 1884; member I. O. O. F., F. &amp; A. M.; Democrat; former Judge of the 5<sup>th<\/sup> Judicial District of Tenn. appointed by <strong>Gov. TURNEY<\/strong> Sep 8, 1893, elected to same position Aug. 1884, reelected Aug. 1902, resigned April 18, 1903; member of Methodist church; engaged in practice of law, exclusively.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>City:\u00a0 Chattanooga SMITH, William Templeton, lawyer; born White Co., Tenn., Feb. 14, 1858;\u00a0 French-Irish-German and English descent; son of W. G. and Amanda R. (Templeton) SMITH; father\u2019s occupation, merchant, lawyer; paternal grandparents, George C. and Martha (Gooch) SMITH, maternal grandparents, William and Lydia (Anderson) TEMPLETON; educated in common schools, and Burritt College; in early life [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"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":[136,151,88,134,4419],"tags":[4318,425,875,4356,268,651],"class_list":{"0":"post-1217","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-burritt-college","7":"category-hamilton","8":"category-surname-s","9":"category-white","10":"category-x_featured-image-no","11":"tag-anderson","12":"tag-boyd","13":"tag-gooch","14":"tag-smith","15":"tag-templeton","16":"tag-turney","17":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1217","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=1217"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1217\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15945,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1217\/revisions\/15945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}