{"id":47,"date":"2011-10-17T01:31:12","date_gmt":"2011-10-17T06:31:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/?p=47"},"modified":"2023-06-15T21:50:55","modified_gmt":"2023-06-16T02:50:55","slug":"poston-william-f","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/poston-william-f\/","title":{"rendered":"POSTON, William F."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">POSTON, William F. &#8212; attorney at law, born Haywood Co., Tenn., May 12, 1849; Irish descent; son of <strong>William T. and Sarah E. (Felts) POSTON<\/strong>; his father was a farmer; received common school education; in early life engaged in clerking in the courts; married <strong>Jennie DUFFER<\/strong> Nov. 5, 1872; is an Odd Fellow, Good Templar and K. of H.; Noble Grand in Odd Fellows and Right Worthy Chief Templar of the state for Good Templars; was a member of the Legislature 1879-81, chairman of the Judiciary committee; appointed U.S. District Attorney by President Arthur in 1882; Republican nominee for Congress 1890; delegate to Republican National Convention; 1906 Republican nominee for Court of Chancery Appeals; 1898 Republican nominee for Railroad Commissioner; 1900, nominee of the Evans faction for Governor Tenn.; engaged in the practice of law at Alamo.<\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Source:<i>\u00a0Who\u2019s Who in Tennessee: A Biographical Reference Book of Notable Tennesseans of To-Day<\/i>. Memphis: Paul &amp; Douglas Co, 1911.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>POSTON, William F. &#8212; attorney at law, born Haywood Co., Tenn., May 12, 1849; Irish descent; son of William T. and Sarah E. (Felts) POSTON; his father was a farmer; received common school education; in early life engaged in clerking in the courts; married Jennie DUFFER Nov. 5, 1872; is an Odd Fellow, Good Templar [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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":[59,85,4062,4419],"tags":[62,61,60],"class_list":{"0":"post-47","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-haywood","7":"category-surname-p","8":"category-whoswho","9":"category-x_featured-image-no","10":"tag-duffer","11":"tag-felts","12":"tag-poston","13":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13950,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47\/revisions\/13950"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}