{"id":4611,"date":"2013-01-29T23:13:29","date_gmt":"2013-01-30T05:13:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/?p=4611"},"modified":"2023-06-15T22:01:56","modified_gmt":"2023-06-16T03:01:56","slug":"wright-william-l","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wright-william-l\/","title":{"rendered":"WRIGHT, William L."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>City: Jamestown<\/p>\n<p><strong>WRIGHT, William L.<\/strong>, banker, real estate dealer; born Pall Mall, Tenn., in 1879; son of <strong>John C. and Mary Frances (Williams) WRIGHT<\/strong>; father\u2019s occupation, farmer, merchant, Maj. 9<sup>th<\/sup> Tenn. Vol. Cavalry Civil war, Federal soldier; educated University of Harriman, Tenn., and Maryville, (Tenn.) College; in early life he taught school, later he was a railroad agent; elected trustee at age of 21 and was the youngest office holder in history of the county; served three terms; elected President Bank of Jamestown, which position he now holds; owns an interest in\u00a0 two farms in Fentress Co. and one-fourth interest in 11,287 acres of timber land in Fentress Co.; member Masonic Lodge No. 281, F. &amp; A. M., I. O. O. F., served one term as Noble Grand of I. O. O. F.; Republican; delegate to Republican National Convention at Chicago in 1908 and has attended every Republican state convention since he was 21.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>City: Jamestown WRIGHT, William L., banker, real estate dealer; born Pall Mall, Tenn., in 1879; son of John C. and Mary Frances (Williams) WRIGHT; father\u2019s occupation, farmer, merchant, Maj. 9th Tenn. Vol. Cavalry Civil war, Federal soldier; educated University of Harriman, Tenn., and Maryville, (Tenn.) College; in early life he taught school, later he was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"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":[551,4415,4419],"tags":[38,294],"class_list":{"0":"post-4611","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-fentress","7":"category-surname-w","8":"category-x_featured-image-no","9":"tag-williams","10":"tag-wright","11":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4611","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\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4611"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4611\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15353,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4611\/revisions\/15353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}