{"id":2249,"date":"2012-09-13T20:49:41","date_gmt":"2012-09-14T01:49:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/?p=2249"},"modified":"2023-06-15T22:00:46","modified_gmt":"2023-06-16T03:00:46","slug":"wilkerson-william-exum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wilkerson-william-exum\/","title":{"rendered":"WILKERSON, William Exum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>City: Chattanooga<\/p>\n<p><strong>WILKERSON, William Exum<\/strong>, lawyer; born Smith Co., Tenn., Feb. 2, 1874; son of <strong>James Allen and Elizabeth (Hale) WILKERSON<\/strong>; English descent; graduated Masonic College Alexandria, Tenn., 1898; in 1902 attended Cumberland University, from which he graduated in law; principal of Chestnut Mound Academy 1898-1900; in 1900 elected superintendent of public instruction of Smith Co. and re-elected in 1901; member of K. of P.; member of Tenn. legislature, 53<sup>rd<\/sup> General Assembly 1903; moved in 1903 to Chattanooga; entered in practice of law, taking his younger brother, <strong>Leonard F.<\/strong> <strong>WILKERSON<\/strong>, in partnership in 1904; Democrat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>City: Chattanooga WILKERSON, William Exum, lawyer; born Smith Co., Tenn., Feb. 2, 1874; son of James Allen and Elizabeth (Hale) WILKERSON; English descent; graduated Masonic College Alexandria, Tenn., 1898; in 1902 attended Cumberland University, from which he graduated in law; principal of Chestnut Mound Academy 1898-1900; in 1900 elected superintendent of public instruction of Smith [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"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":[1132,151,1131,197,4415,4419],"tags":[1134,1133],"class_list":{"0":"post-2249","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-chestnut-mound-academy","7":"category-hamilton","8":"category-masonic-college","9":"category-smith","10":"category-surname-w","11":"category-x_featured-image-no","12":"tag-hale","13":"tag-wilkerson","14":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2249","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\/35"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2249"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2249\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15319,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2249\/revisions\/15319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}