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Alfred Osborn Pope Nicholson (1808-1876) —
also known as A. O. P. Nicholson —
of Tennessee.
Born in Tennessee, 1808.
Democrat. Member of Tennessee state legislature; U.S.
Senator from Tennessee, 1840-42, 1859-61; chief
justice of Tennessee state supreme court, 1870-76.
When the Civil War began, he left Washington but did not resign his
seat in the Senate; one of ten Southern
senators expelled
in absentia on July 11, 1861.
Died in 1876
(age about
68 years).
Interment at Rose Hill Cemetery.
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Edward Ward Carmack (1858-1908) —
also known as Edward W. Carmack —
of Memphis, Shelby
County, Tenn.
Born near Castalian Springs, Sumner
County, Tenn., November
5, 1858.
Democrat. Lawyer;
member of Tennessee
state house of representatives, 1885; editor of newspapers,
including the Nashville American, the Memphis
Commercial, and the Nashville Tennesseean; delegate to
Democratic National Convention from Tennessee, 1896;
U.S.
Representative from Tennessee 10th District, 1897-1901; U.S.
Senator from Tennessee, 1901-07; candidate for Governor of
Tennessee, 1908.
Member, Freemasons.
Shot
and killed by
Robin J. Cooper, whose father, Col. Duncan Hunter, had been ridiculed
in the Tennesseean, in Nashville, Davidson
County, Tenn., November
9, 1908 (age 50 years, 4
days).
Interment at Rose Hill Cemetery; statue at State
Capitol Grounds, Nashville, Tenn.
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Washington Curran Whitthorne (1825-1891) —
also known as Washington C. Whitthorne —
of Columbia, Maury
County, Tenn.
Born near Farmington, Marshall
County, Tenn., April 19,
1825.
Democrat. Lawyer;
member of Tennessee
state senate, 1855-58; member of Tennessee
state house of representatives, 1859-61; Speaker of
the Tennessee State House of Representatives, 1859-61; delegate
to Democratic National Convention from Tennessee, 1860,
1876;
Presidential Elector for Tennessee, 1860;
served in the Confederate Army during the Civil War; U.S.
Representative from Tennessee, 1871-83, 1887-91 (6th District
1871-75, 7th District 1875-83, 1887-91); U.S.
Senator from Tennessee, 1886-87.
Died September
21, 1891 (age 66 years, 155
days).
Interment at Rose Hill Cemetery.
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Lemuel Phillips Padgett (1855-1922) —
also known as Lemuel P. Padgett —
of Columbia, Maury
County, Tenn.
Born in Columbia, Maury
County, Tenn., November
28, 1855.
Son of John B. Padgett and Rebecca Ophelia (Phillips) Padgett.
Democrat. Lawyer;
Presidential Elector for Tennessee, 1884;
member of Tennessee
state senate, 1899-1900; U.S.
Representative from Tennessee 7th District, 1901-22; died in
office 1922.
Died in Washington,
D.C., August 2,
1922 (age 66 years, 247
days).
Interment at Rose Hill Cemetery.
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William Charles Salmon (1868-1925) —
of Columbia, Maury
County, Tenn.
Born near Paris, Henry
County, Tenn., April 3,
1868.
Democrat. School
teacher; lawyer;
served in the U.S. Army during World War I; U.S.
Representative from Tennessee 7th District, 1923-25.
Disciples
of Christ. Member, Freemasons;
Odd
Fellows; Elks.
Died in Washington,
D.C., May 13,
1925 (age 57 years, 40
days).
Interment at Rose Hill Cemetery.
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Horace Frierson (1849-1936) —
of Nashville, Davidson
County, Tenn.; Columbia, Maury
County, Tenn.
Born in Maury
County, Tenn., 1849.
Son of Robert Luther Frierson (1803-1857) and Jane E. (Stephenson)
Frierson (1807-1864).
Democrat. Alternate delegate to Democratic National Convention from
Tennessee, 1912.
Died in Maury
County, Tenn., 1936
(age about
87 years).
Interment at Rose Hill Cemetery.
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