{"id":4974,"date":"2013-03-16T10:53:32","date_gmt":"2013-03-16T15:53:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/?p=4974"},"modified":"2023-06-15T21:37:57","modified_gmt":"2023-06-16T02:37:57","slug":"houk-john-c","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/houk-john-c\/","title":{"rendered":"HOUK, John C."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>City:<\/strong> Knoxville<\/p>\n<p><strong>HOUK<\/strong>, <strong>John C<\/strong>., representative; born Clinton, Tenn., Feb. 25, 1860; son of <strong>Hon. Leonidas Campbell<\/strong> <strong>HOUK<\/strong>; he removed to Knoxville, Tenn., with his father in 1870; graduated from University of Tenn.; admitted to the bar in 1884; he acted as private secretary to his father, 1879-91; was clerk of the House of Representatives of the 47<sup>th<\/sup> Congress, and had in charge the original papers covering over one hundred millions of dollars in claims for property destroyed by U. S. troops during the war; he entered politics at an early age and has held many responsible party positions; he was president of the Republican Club of the Congressional Republican Committee for two years, and its secretary ten years; he received all the Republican votes of the Legislature in 1884 for State Treasurer; was assistant door-keeper of the House of Representatives in the 51<sup>st<\/sup> Congress; he was a Republican representative in the 52d and 53d Congress, 1891-95; at present he is member of the State Senate of Tenn., from Knox County.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>City: Knoxville HOUK, John C., representative; born Clinton, Tenn., Feb. 25, 1860; son of Hon. Leonidas Campbell HOUK; he removed to Knoxville, Tenn., with his father in 1870; graduated from University of Tenn.; admitted to the bar in 1884; he acted as private secretary to his father, 1879-91; was clerk of the House of Representatives [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38,"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":[13,276,77,4419],"tags":[2122],"class_list":{"0":"post-4974","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-anderson","7":"category-knox","8":"category-surname-h","9":"category-x_featured-image-no","10":"tag-houk","11":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4974","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\/38"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4974"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4974\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15460,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4974\/revisions\/15460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}