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PURYEAR, David Burford, <\/strong>lawyer; born at Hendersonville, Tenn., April 7, 1882; French and Scotch-Irish descent; son of William P.<\/strong> and Fannie M. (Wright) PURYEAR<\/strong>; paternal grandparents, William P.<\/strong> and Mary Anne (Pierce) PURYEAR,<\/strong> maternal grandparents, Romulus C. <\/strong>and Bettie (Burford) WRIGHT;<\/strong> educated public schools of Sumner Co., Tenn., and Vanderbilt University, graduating from the latter with degree of Bachelor of Laws May 1902; in early life was in the farming and merchandising business with his father, later was in the Insurance business, then became a lawyer; married Jennie B. McCARVER<\/strong> Feb. 16, 1910; member I. O. O. F. (Past Grand Master of Lodge No. 13), F. & A. M. (Past Worshipful Master of Saundersville Lodge), Delta Tau Delta Fraternity (delegate to Southern convention in 1902) Watauga Club, Nashville, Tenn.; Democrat; represented Sumner Co., in General Assembly of Tenn., three terms, viz: 1907, 1909 and 1911; elected over fierce opposition during factional strife to the legislatures of 1909-1911; was candidate of the local option or administration forces for Speakership of the House of Representatives in 1909 and was defeated; was chairman of the Reelfoot Lake Committee legislative session 1909; appointed to investigate Night-rider trouble and to recommend some adjustment of the disturbing situation; was one of the authors of the Acts to make Reelfoot Lake public game preserve; appointed by the Governor and Attorney General as special counsel for the State in litigation concerning title to Reelfoot Lake; author of two-cent rate bill in legislature of 1907; elected floor leader of Administration forces in legislature of 1911; received 17 votes for United States Senator from Tenn., by 1911 legislature, though not a candidate and too young to be constitutionly elected; member of the Methodist Church<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" City:\u00a0 Gallatin PURYEAR, David Burford, lawyer; born at Hendersonville, Tenn., April 7, 1882; French and Scotch-Irish descent; son of William P. and Fannie M. (Wright) PURYEAR; paternal grandparents, William P. and Mary Anne (Pierce) PURYEAR, maternal grandparents, Romulus C. and Bettie (Burford) WRIGHT; educated public schools of Sumner Co., Tenn., and Vanderbilt University, graduating from […]<\/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":[812,85,7,4419],"tags":[1219,505,448,1270,294],"class_list":{"0":"post-3931","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-sumner","7":"category-surname-p","8":"category-vanderbilt-university","9":"category-x_featured-image-no","10":"tag-burford","11":"tag-mccarver","12":"tag-pierce","13":"tag-puryear","14":"tag-wright","15":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3931","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=3931"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3931\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15822,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3931\/revisions\/15822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}