{"id":1696,"date":"2012-09-25T16:02:29","date_gmt":"2012-09-25T21:02:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/?p=1696"},"modified":"2023-06-15T21:41:59","modified_gmt":"2023-06-16T02:41:59","slug":"lanier-powless-william","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/lanier-powless-william\/","title":{"rendered":"LANIER, Powless William"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>City:\u00a0 Covington<\/p>\n<p><strong>LANIER, Powless William,<\/strong> lawyer; born Fulton, Tipton Co., Tenn., March 7, 1885; son of<strong> S. H. <\/strong>and<strong> Ellen (Cooper) LANIER<\/strong>; paternal grandfather <strong>Samuel B. LANIER<\/strong>, paternal grandmother <strong>Hettie VAN LIER<\/strong>, maternal grandfather <strong>B. COOPER<\/strong>, maternal grandmother <strong>Fannie NORRIS<\/strong>; Huguenot (French) and Dutch descent; educated Tipton Co. schools and Cumberland\u00a0 University; graduate of Cumberland University\u00a0 L. L. B. June, 1907; member Kappa Sigma, \u00a0I. O. O. F. and Masonic Lodge; also member Methodist church; elected to lower house Tennessee legislature 1910.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>City:\u00a0 Covington LANIER, Powless William, lawyer; born Fulton, Tipton Co., Tenn., March 7, 1885; son of S. H. and Ellen (Cooper) LANIER; paternal grandfather Samuel B. LANIER, paternal grandmother Hettie VAN LIER, maternal grandfather B. COOPER, maternal grandmother Fannie NORRIS; Huguenot (French) and Dutch descent; educated Tipton Co. schools and Cumberland\u00a0 University; graduate of Cumberland [&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":[31,81,260,4419],"tags":[437,413,1046,1490],"class_list":{"0":"post-1696","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-cumberland-university","7":"category-surname-l","8":"category-tipton","9":"category-x_featured-image-no","10":"tag-cooper","11":"tag-lanier","12":"tag-norris","13":"tag-van-lier","14":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1696","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=1696"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1696\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15551,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1696\/revisions\/15551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}