{"id":918,"date":"2012-08-18T00:51:59","date_gmt":"2012-08-18T05:51:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/?p=918"},"modified":"2023-06-15T21:29:17","modified_gmt":"2023-06-16T02:29:17","slug":"evans-henry-clay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/evans-henry-clay\/","title":{"rendered":"EVANS, Henry Clay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>City: Chattanooga<\/p>\n<p><strong>EVANS, Henry Clay<\/strong>, manufacturer; born Juniata County, Pa., June 18, 1843; son of <strong>Jesse B. and Anna (Single) EVANS<\/strong>; received academic education; married <strong>Adelaide DURAND<\/strong>, Feb. 18, 1869; Republican; former Chairman of Board of Education, and twice Mayor of Chattanooga, Tenn.; member of 51<sup>st<\/sup> Congress, 3d Tenn. District, 1889-1891; First Assistant Postmaster-General 1893; enlisted in 41<sup>st<\/sup> Wisconsin Infantry, May 1864; elected Governor of Tennessee, 1894, on face of returns \u2013 election contested for alleged irregularities, and <strong>TURNEY<\/strong> was declared elected; delegate at large to Republican National Conventions, 1892, 1896, 1904; delegate 1908; was second choice in the balloting for Vice President of U. S. at Convention, 1896; U. S. Commissioner of Pensions, 1897-1902; American Consul-General at London, 1902-1905; engaged in iron and railway car manufacturing at Chattanooga, Tenn.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>City: Chattanooga EVANS, Henry Clay, manufacturer; born Juniata County, Pa., June 18, 1843; son of Jesse B. and Anna (Single) EVANS; received academic education; married Adelaide DURAND, Feb. 18, 1869; Republican; former Chairman of Board of Education, and twice Mayor of Chattanooga, Tenn.; member of 51st Congress, 3d Tenn. District, 1889-1891; First Assistant Postmaster-General 1893; [&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,"footnotes":""},"categories":[151,4409,4419],"tags":[660,655,659,651],"class_list":["post-918","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-hamilton","category-surname-e","category-x_featured-image-no","tag-durand","tag-evans","tag-single","tag-turney","czr-hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/918","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=918"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/918\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15046,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/918\/revisions\/15046"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}