PoliticalGraveyard.com

Clothing and Textile Politicians in Tennessee

Harvey Link (1824-1906) — of Douglas County, Neb. Born in Washington County, Tenn., February 4, 1824. Co-inventor of the "Robertson and Link Pattern Sheet and Proof Measure System of Garment Cutting"; physician; member of Nebraska territorial House of Representatives, 1867. Died September 11, 1906 (age 82 years, 219 days). Burial location unknown.   Relatives: Son of John Link and Barbara (Harnsbarger) Link; married, June 1, 1852, to Mary Elizabeth Lloyd; father of Helena Barbara Link (who married Phillip Louis Hall); second cousin thrice removed of Albert Link and Dennis Daniels Link.   Political family: Link-Jones family.   William Robert Moore (1830-1909) — of Memphis, Shelby County, Tenn. Born near Huntsville, Madison County, Ala., March 28, 1830. Republican. Dry goods merchant; U.S. Representative from Tennessee 10th District, 1881-83; member of Tennessee state house of representatives, 1889-91. Through a bequest, he founded William R. Moore College of Technology (now Moore Tech). Died in Memphis, Shelby County, Tenn., June 12, 1909 (age 79 years, 76 days). Interment at Forest Hill Cemetery Midtown, Memphis, Tenn.   Relatives: Son of Robert Cleveland Moore and Mary F. (Lingow) Moore; married, February 14, 1878, to Charlotte Heywood Blood.   See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Wikipedia article — Find-A-Grave memorial   Thomas J. Powell (1821-1900) — of Knoxville, Knox County, Tenn. Born in 1821. Dry goods merchant; mayor of Knoxville, Tenn., 1857. Died in 1900 (age about 79 years). Interment at Old Gray Cemetery, Knoxville, Tenn.   Lawrence Davis Tyson (1861-1929) — also known as Lawrence D. Tyson — of Knoxville, Knox County, Tenn. Born in Greenville, Pitt County, N.C., July 4, 1861. Democrat. University professor; lawyer; president, Knoxville Cotton Mills, Knoxville Spinning Co., Poplar Creek Coal and Iron Co., Lenoir City Land Co., East Tennessee Coal and Iron Co., Coal Creek Mining and Manufacturing Co.; colonel in the U.S. Army during the Spanish-American War; member of Tennessee state house of representatives, 1903-05; Speaker of the Tennessee State House of Representatives, 1903-05; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Tennessee, 1908; general in the U.S. Army during World War I; candidate for Democratic nomination for Vice President, 1920; U.S. Senator from Tennessee, 1925-29; died in office 1929. Episcopalian. Member, Sons of the Revolution. Died in 1929 (age about 67 years). Interment at Old Gray Cemetery, Knoxville, Tenn.   Relatives: Son of Richard Lawrence Tyson and Margaret Louise (Turnage) Tyson; married, February 10, 1886, to Bettie Humes McGhee.   See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page   James Peter Walker (1851-1890) — also known as James P. Walker — of Kennett, Dunklin County, Mo.; Point Pleasant, New Madrid County, Mo.; Dexter, Stoddard County, Mo. Born in Lauderdale County, Tenn., March 14, 1851. Democrat. River transportation business; dry goods merchant; grain dealer; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Missouri, 1880; U.S. Representative from Missouri 14th District, 1887-90; died in office 1890. Died in Dexter, Stoddard County, Mo., July 19, 1890 (age 39 years, 127 days). Interment at Dexter Cemetery, Dexter, Mo.   Relatives: Uncle by marriage of Gertrude Sanders (who married the brother-in-law of Richard Nathaniel Lower).   See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page   H. F. Wolstenholme (born c.1820) — of Asheville, Buncombe County, N.C.; Jonesborough, Washington County, Tenn.; Albany, Dougherty County, Ga. Born in England, about 1820. Tailor; postmaster at Asheville, N.C., 1865-66. English ancestry. Burial location unknown.   Relatives: Married, November 7, 1855, to Adaline Perry.

"Enjoy the hospitable entertainment of a political graveyard." Henry L. Clinton, Apollo Hall, New York City, February 3, 1872

The Political Graveyard is a web site about U.S. political history and cemeteries. Founded in 1996, it is the Internet's most comprehensive free source for American political biography, listing 320,919 politicians, living and dead.
	The coverage of this site includes (1) the President, Vice President, members of Congress, elected state and territorial officeholders in all fifty states, the District of Columbia, and U.S. territories; and the chief elected official, typically the mayor, of qualifying municipalities; (2) candidates at election, including primaries, for any of the above; (3) all federal judges and all state appellate judges; (4) certain federal officials, including the federal cabinet, diplomatic chiefs of mission, consuls, U.S. district attorneys, collectors of customs and internal revenue, members of major federal commissions; and political appointee (pre-1969) postmasters of qualifying communities; (5) state and national political party officials, including delegates, alternate delegates, and other participants in national party nominating conventions; (6) Americans who served as "honorary" consuls for other nations before 1950. Note: municipalities or communities "qualify", for Political Graveyard purposes, if they have at least half a million person-years of history, inclusive of predecessor, successor, and merged entities.
	The listings are incomplete; development of the database is a continually ongoing project.
	Information on this page — and on all other pages of this site — is believed to be accurate, but is not guaranteed. Users are advised to check with other sources before relying on any information here.
	The official URL for this page is: https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TN/clothing.html.
	Links to this or any other Political Graveyard page are welcome, but specific page addresses may sometimes change as the site develops.
	If you are searching for a specific named individual, try the alphabetical index of politicians.
Copyright notices: (1) Facts are not subject to copyright; see Feist v. Rural Telephone. (2) Politician portraits displayed on this site are 70-pixel-wide monochrome thumbnail images, which I believe to constitute fair use under applicable copyright law. Where possible, each image is linked to its online source. However, requests from owners of copyrighted images to delete them from this site are honored. (3) Original material, programming, selection and arrangement are © 1996-2023 Lawrence Kestenbaum. (4) This work is also licensed for free non-commercial re-use, with attribution, under a Creative Commons License.
Site information: The Political Graveyard is created and maintained by Lawrence Kestenbaum, who is solely responsible for its structure and content. — The mailing address is The Political Graveyard, P.O. Box 2563, Ann Arbor MI 48106. — This site is hosted by HDL. — The Political Graveyard opened on July 1, 1996; the last full revision was done on March 8, 2023.