City: McKenzie<\/p>\n
GRISSAM, Clyde<\/strong>, lawyer; industrial journalism; born Brownville [sic], Haywood Co. Tenn., March 15, 1881; son of M.M. and Julia (Brown) GRISSAM<\/strong>; English descent; attended Brownsville High school and Vanderbilt Law school; member of I.O.O.F., D.T.D. Frat.; nominated for legislature by Haywood Co. Republicans, 1902; defeated; nominated Republicans of Carroll Co., for legislature 1908; elected over H.M. Mebane, rusion [sic] candidate to 56th assembly; one of the floor leaders; member of Rules Committee; Chairman of Com. Federal Relations; author of Act, creating Tenn., Public Highway Commission; practiced law in Brownsville for three years as member of firm of Nunn and Grissam; located in Carroll Co., in 1904; engaged in practice of law and ; [sic] practiced law in Huntingdon, Tenn., from 1904 to 1905; moved to McKenzie, Tenn., 1906; Early business, newsboy; Republican.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" City: McKenzie GRISSAM, Clyde, lawyer; industrial journalism; born Brownville [sic], Haywood Co. Tenn., March 15, 1881; son of M.M. and Julia (Brown) GRISSAM; English descent; attended Brownsville High school and Vanderbilt Law school; member of I.O.O.F., D.T.D. Frat.; nominated for legislature by Haywood Co. Republicans, 1902; defeated; nominated Republicans of Carroll Co., for legislature 1908; […]<\/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":[21,59,363,4411,7,818,4419],"tags":[208,2476],"class_list":{"0":"post-5985","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-carroll","7":"category-haywood","8":"category-henry","9":"category-surname-g","10":"category-vanderbilt-university","11":"category-weakley","12":"category-x_featured-image-no","13":"tag-brown","14":"tag-grissam","15":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5985","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=5985"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5985\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15179,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5985\/revisions\/15179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}