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BUTTRAM, W. H., <\/strong>public official; son of John <\/strong>and Mary (Hurtt) BUTTRAM<\/strong>; his father was a Federal soldier, and served as sergeant in the 7th<\/sup> Tenn. Mounted Infantry; married Annie McLEOD, <\/strong>April 21, 1891; when a camp of the Sons of Veterans was organized in Huntsville, Tenn., he was elected captain of same; he has been connected with East Tenn., politics for some time; in 1896 he was chairman of the Second Congressional District when the district gave the Republican ticket over six thousand more votes than ever before; in 1908 he was a delegate from the\u00a0 State at Large to the Republican convention at\u00a0 Chicago, Ill., when Judge Taft was nominated for President; he is now serving his second term as attorney-general of the Second Judicial Circuit of Tenn.; as prosecuting attorney obtained an indictment against a man for the unlawful sale of liquor, and procured his convention upon the prima facie en dence of a government license without introducing any other evidence, the case was appealed and Supreme Court affirmed the court below; member of Masons, I. O. O. F., and K. of P.; for many years he has taken an active interest in Sunday School work and his home County (Scott) is one of the \u201cBanner Counties\u201d in State in Sunday School work; member of Presbyterian church.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" City: Huntsville BUTTRAM, W. H., public official; son of John and Mary (Hurtt) BUTTRAM; his father was a Federal soldier, and served as sergeant in the 7th Tenn. Mounted Infantry; married Annie McLEOD, April 21, 1891; when a camp of the Sons of Veterans was organized in Huntsville, Tenn., he was elected captain of same; […]<\/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":[810,4405,4419],"tags":[2020,2021,1793],"class_list":{"0":"post-4372","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-scott","7":"category-surname-b","8":"category-x_featured-image-no","9":"tag-buttram","10":"tag-hurtt","11":"tag-mcleod","12":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4372","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=4372"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4372\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14780,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4372\/revisions\/14780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}