{"id":5158,"date":"2013-03-19T14:06:49","date_gmt":"2013-03-19T19:06:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/?p=5158"},"modified":"2023-06-15T21:59:27","modified_gmt":"2023-06-16T02:59:27","slug":"tyson-lawrence-davis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/tyson-lawrence-davis\/","title":{"rendered":"TYSON, Lawrence Davis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>City:<\/strong>\u00a0 Knoxville<\/p>\n<p><strong>TYSON, Lawrence Davis<\/strong>, lawyer; born Greeneville, N. C., July 4, 1861; son of <strong>Richard Lawrence and Margaret Louise (Turnage) TYSON<\/strong>; graduated U. S. Military Academy 1883; married <strong>Bettie Humes MCGHEE<\/strong>, Feb. 10, 1886; served as second lieutenant Ninth U. S. Infantry June 13, 1883; promoted to first lieutenant Oct. 15, 1889; resigned April 15, 1896; appointed by President McKinley, colonel Sixth U. S. Volunteer Infantry May 20, 1898; served in Porto Rico during Spanish-American war, mustered out March 15, 1899; brigadier-general and inspector general on staff of Governor of Tenn., 1902-1906; member of Tenn. House of Representatives 1903 (speaker) Democrat; delegate at large from Tenn. to Democratic National Convention, July 1908; admitted to bar 1895; president of Knoxville Cotton Mills, Knoxville Woolen Mills, Poplar Creek Coal &amp; Iron Co., Lenoir City Land Co.; vice-president East Tenn. Coal &amp; Iron Co., Coal Creek mining &amp; Mfg. Co.; trustee East Tenn. Female Institute, Knoxville General Hospital, Knoxville, Tenn., member Branch S. R.; member of Cumberland, Cherokee Country Clubs, of Knoxville, Tenn., Army and Navy, N. Y.; Army and Navy, N. Y.; and army and navy, Washington, D. C.; member of Episcopal church.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>City:\u00a0 Knoxville TYSON, Lawrence Davis, lawyer; born Greeneville, N. C., July 4, 1861; son of Richard Lawrence and Margaret Louise (Turnage) TYSON; graduated U. S. Military Academy 1883; married Bettie Humes MCGHEE, Feb. 10, 1886; served as second lieutenant Ninth U. S. Infantry June 13, 1883; promoted to first lieutenant Oct. 15, 1889; resigned April [&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":[276,4412,4419],"tags":[749,2789,1192],"class_list":{"0":"post-5158","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-knox","7":"category-surname-t","8":"category-x_featured-image-no","9":"tag-mcghee","10":"tag-turnage","11":"tag-tyson","12":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5158","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=5158"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5158\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15259,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5158\/revisions\/15259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}