{"id":2804,"date":"2012-11-02T23:45:30","date_gmt":"2012-11-03T04:45:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/?p=2804"},"modified":"2023-06-15T21:34:14","modified_gmt":"2023-06-16T02:34:14","slug":"garrett-finis-j","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/garrett-finis-j\/","title":{"rendered":"GARRETT, Finis J."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>City:\u00a0 Dresden<\/p>\n<p><strong>GARRETT, Finis J.,<\/strong> born in Weakly Co., Tenn., Aug. 26, 1875; Scotch-Irish descent; son of <strong>Noah J.<\/strong> and <strong>Virginia (Baughman) GARRETT<\/strong>; fathers occupation farmer; paternal grandparents <strong>Noah <\/strong>and <strong>Elizabeth (Willbanks) GARRETT<\/strong>; maternal grandparents <strong>J. R.<\/strong> and <strong>Mary (Ore) BAUGHMAN<\/strong>; graduated from Bethel College with degree of B. A., June 30, 1897; in early life edited country newspaper and taught school; married <strong>Elizabeth Harris BURNS,<\/strong> Nov. 27, 1901; member Masons and Odd Fellows; Democrat; was Clerk and Master of Chancery Court of Weakley County, from 1901 to 1905; elected to Congress from 9<sup>th<\/sup> Congressional District, in 1905, and is the present incumbent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>City:\u00a0 Dresden GARRETT, Finis J., born in Weakly Co., Tenn., Aug. 26, 1875; Scotch-Irish descent; son of Noah J. and Virginia (Baughman) GARRETT; fathers occupation farmer; paternal grandparents Noah and Elizabeth (Willbanks) GARRETT; maternal grandparents J. R. and Mary (Ore) BAUGHMAN; graduated from Bethel College with degree of B. A., June 30, 1897; in early [&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,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1760,4411,818,4419],"tags":[1444,1447,1443,1446,1445],"class_list":["post-2804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-bethel-college","category-surname-g","category-weakley","category-x_featured-image-no","tag-baughman","tag-burns","tag-garrett","tag-ore","tag-willbanks","czr-hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2804","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=2804"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2804\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15129,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2804\/revisions\/15129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}