{"id":5696,"date":"2013-04-02T20:55:15","date_gmt":"2013-04-03T01:55:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/?p=5696"},"modified":"2023-06-12T12:47:38","modified_gmt":"2023-06-12T17:47:38","slug":"blackburn-james-knox-polk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/blackburn-james-knox-polk\/","title":{"rendered":"BLACKBURN, James Knox Polk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>City: Lynnville<\/p>\n<p><strong>BLACKBURN, James Knox Polk<\/strong>, farmer and stock raiser; born Maury Co., Tenn., Feb. 20, 1837; Scotch and Dutch descent; son of <strong>Edward Rose and Hester Jane (Dickey) BLACKBURN<\/strong>; father was a farmer and stock raiser; educated in the common schools in Tenn., and Alma Institute, Texas; in early life entered farming and taught school; married <strong>Mary McMillan LAIRD<\/strong>, Feb. 10, 1867; Democrat; member of Legislature, 1883-1885, as representative, and elected State Senator, 1910; served in Civil war as member of 8th Texas Cavalry (Terry&#8217;s Texas Rangers), private for a while and later promoted to company commander; while in legislature he helped settle the State debt, and aided in making a railroad commission law, and in the passage of a statewide prohibition law; member of Christian church.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>City: Lynnville BLACKBURN, James Knox Polk, farmer and stock raiser; born Maury Co., Tenn., Feb. 20, 1837; Scotch and Dutch descent; son of Edward Rose and Hester Jane (Dickey) BLACKBURN; father was a farmer and stock raiser; educated in the common schools in Tenn., and Alma Institute, Texas; in early life entered farming and taught [&hellip;]<\/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":[205,180,4405,4419],"tags":[1235,1872,2416],"class_list":{"0":"post-5696","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-giles","7":"category-maury","8":"category-surname-b","9":"category-x_featured-image-no","10":"tag-blackburn","11":"tag-dickey","12":"tag-laird","13":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5696","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=5696"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5696\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14693,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5696\/revisions\/14693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}