{"id":8282,"date":"2013-10-20T23:14:05","date_gmt":"2013-10-21T04:14:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/?p=8282"},"modified":"2023-06-15T22:01:27","modified_gmt":"2023-06-16T03:01:27","slug":"wright-luke-e","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wright-luke-e\/","title":{"rendered":"WRIGHT, Luke E."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>City: Memphis<\/p>\n<p><strong>WRIGHT, Luke E.<\/strong>, lawyer; born Giles Co., Tenn., Aug. 29, 1846; Scotch descent; son of <strong>Archibald and Mary E. (Eldridge) WRIGHT<\/strong>; paternal grandparents<strong> John and Nancy (McIntyre) WRIGHT<\/strong>, maternal grandfather <strong>Elisha ELDRIDGE<\/strong>, maternal grandmother was a <strong>Miss DILLON <\/strong>prior to her marriage; educated University of Miss.; received B. L. (honorary) degree from University of Miss., and Hamilton College, New York; married <strong>Kate Middleton SEMMES<\/strong>, Dec. 15, 1868; member Tennessee Club, Chickasaw Club, Metropolitan Club, Washington, D. C., and Tenn. State Bar Assn.; Democrat; enlisted as private C. S. A. in 1861, Co. \u201cA,\u201d 54<sup>th<\/sup> regiment Tenn. Infantry, transferred to Art. Battery (Wright\u2019s Art. Battery) and became 2d Lieut. in same to 1865; district attorney of Shelby Co., Tenn., 1876-1878, member of Philippine Commission 1900, vice-governor of Philippine Islands, 1903-1905, ambassador to Japan, 1906-1907, secretary of war, 1908-1909; resigned; active in relief measures during yellow fever scourge of 1878.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>City: Memphis WRIGHT, Luke E., lawyer; born Giles Co., Tenn., Aug. 29, 1846; Scotch descent; son of Archibald and Mary E. (Eldridge) WRIGHT; paternal grandparents John and Nancy (McIntyre) WRIGHT, maternal grandfather Elisha ELDRIDGE, maternal grandmother was a Miss DILLON prior to her marriage; educated University of Miss.; received B. L. (honorary) degree from University [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"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":[205,261,4415,4419],"tags":[1223,620,1873,584,294],"class_list":{"0":"post-8282","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-giles","7":"category-shelby","8":"category-surname-w","9":"category-x_featured-image-no","10":"tag-dillon","11":"tag-eldridge","12":"tag-mcintyre","13":"tag-semmes","14":"tag-wright","15":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8282","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\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8282"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8282\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8283,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8282\/revisions\/8283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}