{"id":5992,"date":"2013-04-14T15:22:13","date_gmt":"2013-04-14T20:22:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/?p=5992"},"modified":"2023-06-15T21:45:57","modified_gmt":"2023-06-16T02:45:57","slug":"mcelroy-robert-chester","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/mcelroy-robert-chester\/","title":{"rendered":"McELROY, Robert Chester"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>City: McKenzie<\/p>\n<p><strong>McELROY, Robert Chester<\/strong>, educator, minister of the gospel; born Henry Co., Tenn., Nov. 16, 1883; Scotch-Irish descent; son of <strong>Robert and Martha J. (Petty) McELROY<\/strong>; educated in local schools of Henry Co., Tenn., and Hall-Moody Institute, Martin, Tenn.; married <strong>Katherine HUDDLESTON<\/strong> Jan. 18, 1906; Democrat; member of lower house Gen. Assembly of Tenn. 1904-1907; was temporary speaker of the House, joint author of Pendleton bill; youngest member of legislature in history of the State of Tenn.; editor of &#8220;Parisian,&#8221; Paris, Tenn., from 1903 to 1906; ordained as minister of the Baptist church 1906; became associated with Baptist Banner as co-editor; resigned to take charge of Baptist church at McKenzie, Tenn., in 1909; elected Superintendent of City Schools of McKenzie same year; editor and publisher of Doctrinal Foundations, a Baptist monthly magazine.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>City: McKenzie McELROY, Robert Chester, educator, minister of the gospel; born Henry Co., Tenn., Nov. 16, 1883; Scotch-Irish descent; son of Robert and Martha J. (Petty) McELROY; educated in local schools of Henry Co., Tenn., and Hall-Moody Institute, Martin, Tenn.; married Katherine HUDDLESTON Jan. 18, 1906; Democrat; member of lower house Gen. Assembly of Tenn. [&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":[21,453,363,82,818,4419],"tags":[527,2478,2479],"class_list":{"0":"post-5992","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-carroll","7":"category-hall-moody-institute","8":"category-henry","9":"category-surname-m","10":"category-weakley","11":"category-x_featured-image-no","12":"tag-huddleston","13":"tag-mcelroy","14":"tag-petty","15":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5992","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=5992"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5992\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15627,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5992\/revisions\/15627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}