{"id":1411,"date":"2012-09-11T18:00:16","date_gmt":"2012-09-11T23:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/?p=1411"},"modified":"2023-06-15T21:53:21","modified_gmt":"2023-06-16T02:53:21","slug":"shields-john-k","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/shields-john-k\/","title":{"rendered":"SHIELDS, John K."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>City:\u00a0 Clinchdale<strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>SHIELDS, John K.<\/strong>, public official; born Clinchdale, Tenn., Aug 15, 1858; son of <strong>Judge James T.<\/strong> and<strong> Elizabeth (Simpson) SHIELDS<\/strong>; received common school education; Democrat; admitted to bar, 1879; entered the practice of law as partner with father, and continued in same until latter retired, 1890, when he practiced as partner of R. E. L. Mountcastle, 1890-92; and again 1894-1902; Chancellor of 12<sup>th<\/sup> Chancery Division of Tenn., 1892-94; Associate Justice Supreme Court of Tenn., for Eastern Division of the State; re-elected 1910; and elected Chief Justice of the Court; P. O. address, Tate, Grainger County, Tennessee.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>City:\u00a0 Clinchdale SHIELDS, John K., public official; born Clinchdale, Tenn., Aug 15, 1858; son of Judge James T. and Elizabeth (Simpson) SHIELDS; received common school education; Democrat; admitted to bar, 1879; entered the practice of law as partner with father, and continued in same until latter retired, 1890, when he practiced as partner of R. [&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":[799,801,88,4419],"tags":[1021,112],"class_list":{"0":"post-1411","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-grainger","7":"category-hancock","8":"category-surname-s","9":"category-x_featured-image-no","10":"tag-shields","11":"tag-simpson","12":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1411","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=1411"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1411\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15914,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1411\/revisions\/15914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}