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BYNUM, Robert Lee, <\/strong>educator; born Union City, Tenn., Sept. 28, 1867; Scotch- Irish and English descent; son of William J. <\/strong>and Theresa Ann (Gilbert) BYNUM; <\/strong>father\u2019s occupation, merchant and farmer; paternal grandparents Green Horton<\/strong> and Lizzie (Day) BYNUM<\/strong>, maternal grandparents Washington M. <\/strong>and Eliza (Cole) GILBERT<\/strong>; educated Vanderbilt Training School, Union City, Tenn., and Bethel College; began teaching in 1889; elected Superintendent of Public Instruction of Obion Co., Tenn., in 1897; served five years; principal in Jackson city schools 1901-1906; elected Superintendent of Public Instruction for Madison Co., Tenn., 1907, and is the present incumbent; served three times as Commander U. S. C. V.; elected Pres. Tenn. Public School Officers 1903; married Fannie Lee ALLEN <\/strong>July 29, 1894; member Masons, Woodmen of the World; Democrat; Col. on the staff of Gov. M. R. PATTERSON <\/strong>1907-1909; member of Tenn. State Board of Education; member of Presbyterian church, U. S. A. and Ruling Elder in same.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" City: Jackson BYNUM, Robert Lee, educator; born Union City, Tenn., Sept. 28, 1867; Scotch- Irish and English descent; son of William J. and Theresa Ann (Gilbert) BYNUM; father\u2019s occupation, merchant and farmer; paternal grandparents Green Horton and Lizzie (Day) BYNUM, maternal grandparents Washington M. and Eliza (Cole) GILBERT; educated Vanderbilt Training School, Union City, Tenn., […]<\/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":[1760,36,809,4405,4419],"tags":[160,2053,328,1865,53,1647],"class_list":{"0":"post-4447","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-bethel-college","7":"category-madison","8":"category-obion","9":"category-surname-b","10":"category-x_featured-image-no","11":"tag-allen","12":"tag-bynum","13":"tag-cole","14":"tag-day","15":"tag-gilbert","16":"tag-horton","17":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4447","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=4447"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4447\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14783,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4447\/revisions\/14783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}