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BRIGHT, John Morgan<\/strong>, Statesman, lawyer; born Fayetteville, Tenn., Jan. 1817; English and Welsh descent; son of James and Nancy (Morgan) BRIGHT<\/strong>; paternal grandparents James M. and Margaret (Smythe) BRIGHT<\/strong>; his paternal grandmother was a sister of Gen. Wm. HALL<\/strong>; maternal grandparents John and Mary (Hall) MORGAN<\/strong>; he was educated at Bingham School, N. C., and Nashville University; he received the degrees of A. B., A. M., and L.L. D.; he has been married three times, first wife Judith C. CLARK<\/strong>; second wife Zurilda B. BUCKNER<\/strong>; third wife Belle BUCKNER<\/strong>; graduated in law Transylvania University, Lexington, Ky., in 1841, and was the valedictorian of his class; Gen. John C. BRECKENRIDGE<\/strong> of Ky. was one of his classmates; entered the practice of his profession at Fayetteville, Tenn., in 1841; made the canvass of the State for Polk for President in 1844; in this campaign he debated with Maj. G. A. HENRY<\/strong> \u201cThe Eagle Orator,\u201d of Tenn., and Whig elector for Tenn.; member of the State Legislature 1847-8; while in the Legislature he introduced and passed the bill providing for the construction of Tenn., Asylum for the Insane; in 1848 he canvassed for Cass and Butler in the Presidential contest; he was active in every Presidential campaign from 1844 to 1860; was the author of many orations and lectures, which have from time to time been published; during the Civil War he was Inspector General of Tenn., with the rank of Brig.-Gen., under Gov. Isham G. Harris; in 1870 he was elected to Congress by about 10,000 majority from the 5th<\/sup> Cong. District of Tenn.; his first speech in the U. S. House of Representatives was against the Ku-Klux Bill; he served in Congress for ten years; member of the Tenn., Bar Association, and is the oldest living lawyer in the State; has been engaged in the practice of law Fayetteville, Tenn., since his retirement from Congress; Democrat; member of Presbyterian church.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" City: Fayetteville BRIGHT, John Morgan, Statesman, lawyer; born Fayetteville, Tenn., Jan. 1817; English and Welsh descent; son of James and Nancy (Morgan) BRIGHT; paternal grandparents James M. and Margaret (Smythe) BRIGHT; his paternal grandmother was a sister of Gen. Wm. HALL; maternal grandparents John and Mary (Hall) MORGAN; he was educated at Bingham School, N. […]<\/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":[329,4405,4419],"tags":[1392,1389,940,1391,202,819,4372,1390],"class_list":{"0":"post-2722","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-lincoln","7":"category-surname-b","8":"category-x_featured-image-no","9":"tag-breckenridge","10":"tag-bright","11":"tag-brightwell","12":"tag-buckner","13":"tag-clark","14":"tag-hall","15":"tag-henry","16":"tag-smythe","17":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2722","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=2722"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2722\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14739,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2722\/revisions\/14739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}