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HEISKELL, SAMUEL G.<\/strong>, Mayor of Knoxville; born Monroe Co., Tenn.; son William and Julia J. (Gahazan) HEISKELL<\/strong>; German, Scotch-Irish descent; graduated University of Tenn., B.A., 1877; married, Irene KUHN<\/strong> Sept. 21, 1897; member K. of P., and I.O.O.F.; Past Chancellor and Past Grand Representative of K. of P.; Past Noble Grand in I.O.O.F.; admitted to bar in 1879, elected Alderman of Knoxville in 1882; City Attorney in 1884; member of Tenn., legislature from Knox. Co., in 1895; Chairman Judiciary Committee of House of Representative same year; District Elector Cleveland and Hendricks in 1884; Secretary of State Electoral College same year; Mayor of Knoxville 1896 and 1898, –1900 to 1902; 1906 to 1908; reelected Mayor City of Knoxville again 1910; member of State Bar Association; delegate to National Convention at Chicago in 1892; six years member Dem. Executive Committee of Knoxville; six years chairman Dem. Executive Committee of Knox Co.; six years chairman of Democrat Committee of 2d Congressional District; former member of State Democratic Executive Committee; eight years trustee of Hospital for Insane for East Tenn.; President of Board for 2 years; member Episcopal church.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" City: Knoxville HEISKELL, SAMUEL G., Mayor of Knoxville; born Monroe Co., Tenn.; son William and Julia J. (Gahazan) HEISKELL; German, Scotch-Irish descent; graduated University of Tenn., B.A., 1877; married, Irene KUHN Sept. 21, 1897; member K. of P., and I.O.O.F.; Past Chancellor and Past Grand Representative of K. of P.; Past Noble Grand in I.O.O.F.; […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"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":[276,433,77,418,4419],"tags":[2265,2264,2266],"class_list":{"0":"post-5074","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-knox","7":"category-monroe","8":"category-surname-h","9":"category-university-of-tennessee","10":"category-x_featured-image-no","11":"tag-gahazan","12":"tag-heiskell","13":"tag-kuhn","14":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5074","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\/36"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5074"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5074\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15416,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5074\/revisions\/15416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}