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LANSDEN, Dick Latta<\/strong>, lawyer; born Bakers Cross Roads, White Co., Tenn., May 15, 1869; son of Hugh Hill and Lee Ann (McGee) LANSDEN<\/strong>; paternal grandfather, Rev. James K. LANSDEN<\/strong>; paternal grandmother, Nancy (McDonald) LANSDEN<\/strong>, maternal grandfather, George MCGEE<\/strong>; maternal grandmother Nancy (Murphy) MCGEE<\/strong>; Irish descent; educated common schools of White Co. and Doyle College; in early youth taught school fo7 \/sic\/<\/em> years and was admitted to bar in 1893; married Helen SNODGRASS<\/strong> Nov. 14, 1895; member Masonic Lodge, Blue Lodge and Royal Arch, I. O. O. F. and K. of P.; was county superintendent of White Co. from 1891-93; was chancellor of fourth chancery division from 1902-1910; elected judge of the supreme court of Tenn. Aug. 4, 1910; was a candidate for supreme court in 1908, but was defeated; refused to enter Democratic primary June, 1910, and stumped the state for free and untrammeled judiciary ticket and was elected as an independent to supreme bench by a large majority; member Presbyterian church.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" City: Cookeville LANSDEN, Dick Latta, lawyer; born Bakers Cross Roads, White Co., Tenn., May 15, 1869; son of Hugh Hill and Lee Ann (McGee) LANSDEN; paternal grandfather, Rev. James K. LANSDEN; paternal grandmother, Nancy (McDonald) LANSDEN, maternal grandfather, George MCGEE; maternal grandmother Nancy (Murphy) MCGEE; Irish descent; educated common schools of White Co. and Doyle […]<\/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":[110,81,134,4419],"tags":[1372,559,1373,1374,876],"class_list":{"0":"post-1635","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-putnam","7":"category-surname-l","8":"category-white","9":"category-x_featured-image-no","10":"tag-lansden","11":"tag-mcdonald","12":"tag-mcgee","13":"tag-murphy","14":"tag-snodgrass","15":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1635","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=1635"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1635\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15552,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1635\/revisions\/15552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}