{"id":9043,"date":"2013-11-15T21:42:43","date_gmt":"2013-11-16T03:42:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/?p=9043"},"modified":"2023-06-15T21:26:02","modified_gmt":"2023-06-16T02:26:02","slug":"dickinson-jacob-mcgavock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/dickinson-jacob-mcgavock\/","title":{"rendered":"DICKINSON, Jacob McGavock"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>City: Nashville<\/p>\n<p><strong>DICKINSON, Jacob McGavock<\/strong>, Secretary of War; born Columbus, Miss., January 30, 1851; son of <strong>Henry and Anna (McGavock) DICKINSON<\/strong>; paternal grandparents <strong>William R. and Mary (Johnson) DICKINSON<\/strong>, maternal grandparents <strong>Jacob and Louisa (Grundy) MCGAVOCK<\/strong>; graduated University of Nashville, A. B., 1871; A.M., 1872; studied law at Columbia University, New York, University of Leipzig and in Paris; received LL.D. at Columbia University in 1905, University of Illinois in 1905 and Yale University in 1909; married <strong>Martha OVERTON<\/strong>, April 20, 1876; President American Bar Association, 1907-1908; member of Chicago and Iroquois Clubs of Chicago; admitted to bar 1874; practiced in Nashville, 1874-99; Chicago, 1899-1909; served several times by special commission on Supreme bench of Tennessee; Assistant Attorney General of United States, 1895-97; Counsel for United States before Alaskan Boundary Tribunal, 1903; General Counsel for Illinois Central Railway, 1901-09; Secretary of War in Cabinet of <b>President TAFT<\/b> from March 12, 1909; resigned 1911.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Source:<i>\u00a0Who\u2019s Who in Tennessee: A Biographical Reference Book of Notable Tennesseans of To-Day<\/i>. Memphis: Paul &amp; Douglas Co, 1911.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>City: Nashville DICKINSON, Jacob McGavock, Secretary of War; born Columbus, Miss., January 30, 1851; son of Henry and Anna (McGavock) DICKINSON; paternal grandparents William R. and Mary (Johnson) DICKINSON, maternal grandparents Jacob and Louisa (Grundy) MCGAVOCK; graduated University of Nashville, A. B., 1871; A.M., 1872; studied law at Columbia University, New York, University of Leipzig [&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":[162,4408,541,4062,4419],"tags":[3229,4346,4360,1486,4342],"class_list":{"0":"post-9043","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-davidson","7":"category-surname-d","8":"category-university-of-nashville","9":"category-whoswho","10":"category-x_featured-image-no","11":"tag-dickinson","12":"tag-grundy","13":"tag-johnson","14":"tag-mcgavock","15":"tag-overton","16":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9043","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=9043"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9043\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13294,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9043\/revisions\/13294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}