{"id":5148,"date":"2013-03-19T14:00:53","date_gmt":"2013-03-19T19:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/?p=5148"},"modified":"2023-06-15T21:58:46","modified_gmt":"2023-06-16T02:58:46","slug":"thornburgh-john-minnis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/thornburgh-john-minnis\/","title":{"rendered":"THORNBURGH, John Minnis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>City:<\/strong>\u00a0 Knoxville<\/p>\n<p><strong>THORNBURGH, John Minnis<\/strong>, lawyer; born Knoxville, Tenn., Nov. 10, 1881; son of ex-Congressman <strong>Col. Jacob M. and Laura Emma (Pettibone) THORNBURGH<\/strong>; educated University of Tenn. and Columbia University, N. Y., graduated from University of Tenn. with degree B. A. 1901, LL. B., 1902, valedictorian; member Phi Gamma Delta Fraternity Knoxville Lodge No. 160, B. P. O. E.; Past Grand Knight Knoxville Council No. 645, Knights of Columbus, member Cotillion Club, Cherokee Country Club, Y. M. C. A. and Phi Kappa Phi Honor Fraternity; admitted to bar to practice in all courts in Tenn. 1902, admitted to practice before Supreme Court of U. S. March 8, 1909; member of Knox Co. Republican Executive Committee since 1906; delegate to Republican Gubernatorial convention 1910; formerly connected with law firm Cormick, Wright &amp; Frantz, 1903-1905; formed partnership with J. Pike Powers, Jr., in 1905, and has practiced law since under the firm name of Powers &amp; Thornburgh; Catholic; member of Church of Immaculate Conception; married Oct. 11, 1910, to <strong>Sarah MATLOCK<\/strong>, of Riceville, Tenn.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>City:\u00a0 Knoxville THORNBURGH, John Minnis, lawyer; born Knoxville, Tenn., Nov. 10, 1881; son of ex-Congressman Col. Jacob M. and Laura Emma (Pettibone) THORNBURGH; educated University of Tenn. and Columbia University, N. Y., graduated from University of Tenn. with degree B. A. 1901, LL. B., 1902, valedictorian; member Phi Gamma Delta Fraternity Knoxville Lodge No. 160, [&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":[276,211,4412,418,4419],"tags":[2611,2782,2781],"class_list":{"0":"post-5148","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-knox","7":"category-mcminn","8":"category-surname-t","9":"category-university-of-tennessee","10":"category-x_featured-image-no","11":"tag-matlock","12":"tag-pettibone","13":"tag-thornburgh","14":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5148","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=5148"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5148\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15237,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5148\/revisions\/15237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}