{"id":3999,"date":"2012-12-20T12:47:18","date_gmt":"2012-12-20T18:47:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/?p=3999"},"modified":"2023-06-15T21:35:01","modified_gmt":"2023-06-16T02:35:01","slug":"gordon-thomas-cage-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/gordon-thomas-cage-2\/","title":{"rendered":"GORDON, Thomas Cage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>City: <\/strong>Dyersburg<\/p>\n<p><strong>GORDON, Thomas Cage,<\/strong> attorney at law; born at Jackson, La., May 7, 1856; Scotch-Irish descent on mother\u2019s side and Indian on father\u2019s side, being descended from Pocahontas; one of his ancestors, <strong>John\u00a0 GORDON, <\/strong>was Captain of spies under <strong>Andrew JACKSON<\/strong>; graduated at Centenary College, Jackson, La., with a degree of A.B., 1874 and in 1884 the degree of A.M., was conferred upon him; began his business career as a teacher; married <strong>Kate LATTA, <\/strong>\u00a0June 1879; member of K. of \u00a0P. and of Elks; Democrat; former Circuit Court Clerk of Dyer County; former County Superintendent of Education of Dyer County, and representative of Dyer Co., in the State Legislature; was Colonel on Staff of <strong>Gov. McMillan; <\/strong>is now in the active practice of law at Dyersburg, Tenn; Presbyterian.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>City: Dyersburg GORDON, Thomas Cage, attorney at law; born at Jackson, La., May 7, 1856; Scotch-Irish descent on mother\u2019s side and Indian on father\u2019s side, being descended from Pocahontas; one of his ancestors, John\u00a0 GORDON, was Captain of spies under Andrew JACKSON; graduated at Centenary College, Jackson, La., with a degree of A.B., 1874 and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"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":[649,4411,4419],"tags":[1469,4391,947],"class_list":{"0":"post-3999","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-dyer","7":"category-surname-g","8":"category-x_featured-image-no","9":"tag-gordon","10":"tag-jackson","11":"tag-latta","12":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3999","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\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3999"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3999\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15152,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3999\/revisions\/15152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}