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Virginia Eliza Clemm was born in 1822 [1] and named after an older sister who had died at age two [2] only ten days earlier. [3] Her father William Clemm, Jr. was a hardware merchant in Baltimore. [4] He had married Maria Poe, Virginia's mother, on July 12, 1817, [5] after the death of his first wife, Maria's first cousin Harriet. [6]
The FBI set up E-Cycle, a bogus company based in Atlanta and claiming to recycle electronics by sending the electronics to third world countries. [1]The FBI sting operation ran from 2003 to 2007 in which eleven state and local officials were arrested for in relation to an FBI sting operation, using a fake company claiming to recycle electronics called E-Cycle Management.
On April 5, 1968, the day after the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., Memphis clergy from many churches and synagogues met at St. Mary's.In an impromptu move, Dimmick took up the cathedral's processional cross and led the assembled ministers down Poplar Avenue to City Hall to petition Mayor Henry C. Loeb to end the Memphis sanitation strike that King was in town to help negotiate.
William Bedford (born 1963) — basketball player; Diane Meredith Belcher (born 1960) — concert organist, teacher, and church musician; Chris Bell (1951–1978) — musician; William Bell (born 1939) — singer; Charles T. Bernard (1927–2015) — businessman and Arkansas politician, died in Memphis in 2015; Big Scarr (born 2000) — rapper
Harold Ford Jr. (May 11, 1970- ), who served five terms in of the United States House of Representatives from Tennessee's 9th congressional district, centered in Memphis, from 1997 to 2007. [3] Jake Ford (October 1, 1972- ), who twice unsuccessfully ran for the TN 9th District in 2006 and 2008.
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Clem, Jr. wrote in a letter on October 31, 1991, "Years ago when I assumed management of Whitaker and Baxter we phased out of the campaign management business. Our last candidate campaign was the election of Senator Robert Griffin over Governor Mennen "Soapy" Williams in Michigan in 1966. We ceased ballot issue campaigns in 1973."