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STAPLES, John W.<\/strong>, attorney at law; born at Wartburg, Tenn., July 17, 1870; son of Samuel H. and Mary E. T. (Childress) STAPLES<\/strong>; father’s occupation, attorney at law; paternal grandparents, B.T. and Millie (Hall) STAPLES<\/strong>, maternal grandparents, John and Mary (Bowling) CHILDRESS<\/strong>; educated public schools of Roane Co., Tenn., and Roane College, graduating from the latter with A.B., degree in 1886; in early life was a Railroad man, conductor out of Chicago at the age of eighteen; studied law in father’s office and took post graduate course under Col. S.E. Young Sweetwater, Tenn., and post-graduate course at American Temperance University receiving L.L.D. degree; married Jennie C. GASS<\/strong> Dec. 23, 1897; member K. of P., J.O.U.A.M., F. & A.M., Harriman R.A. Chapter and Harriman Commandery; Democrat (Regular); Elector 2d Cong. district of Tenn., 1900; Nominee for Congress 1904; County Judge of Roane Co., Tenn., 1905-1906; served during Spanish-American war as Capt. Co. “C” 4th Tenn., Vol. Infantry U.S.A.; member Methodist Church; engaged in the practice of law at Harriman, Tenn.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" City: Harriman STAPLES, John W., attorney at law; born at Wartburg, Tenn., July 17, 1870; son of Samuel H. and Mary E. T. (Childress) STAPLES; father’s occupation, attorney at law; paternal grandparents, B.T. and Millie (Hall) STAPLES, maternal grandparents, John and Mary (Bowling) CHILDRESS; educated public schools of Roane Co., Tenn., and Roane College, graduating […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"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":[277,477,1818,88,4419],"tags":[1801,1800,1802,819,1799],"class_list":{"0":"post-3632","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-morgan","7":"category-roane","8":"category-roane-college","9":"category-surname-s","10":"category-x_featured-image-no","11":"tag-bowling","12":"tag-childress","13":"tag-gass","14":"tag-hall","15":"tag-staples","16":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3632","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\/36"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3632"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3632\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15961,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3632\/revisions\/15961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}