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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]
Lewis' sons Clarence Lewis and Robert Lewis Jr. took over the family business. Robert Lewis Jr. became a business leader in Memphis, and was noted for his efforts at establishing T. O. Fuller State Park. Other noted achievements include advocating for the hiring of the first African-American firefighters in Memphis in 1955, being the first ...
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
The Commercial Appeal (also known as the Memphis Commercial Appeal) is a daily newspaper of Memphis, Tennessee, and its surrounding metropolitan area.It is owned by the Gannett Company; its former owner, the E. W. Scripps Company, also owned the former afternoon paper, the Memphis Press-Scimitar, which it folded in 1983.
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.
A member of the Tennessee General Assembly, Chandler served in the Tennessee state house of representatives in 1917.He served as a captain in the One Hundred and Fourteenth Field Artillery, Thirtieth Division, American Expeditionary Forces, from July 25, 1917, to April 19, 1919, during World War I. and then was a member of Tennessee state senate from 1921 to 1923.
J.O. Patterson, Jr. J. Wyeth Chandler (February 21, 1930 – November 11, 2004) [ 1 ] served as mayor of Memphis, Tennessee from 1972 to 1982. He was the adopted son of former Memphis mayor and U.S. Representative Walter Chandler .
The city leaders during this period were known as President of the Taxing District. They were David T. Porter (1879-1881), John Overton (1881-1883), David P. Hadden (1883-1891), William D. Bethell (1891-1893) and Walter L. Clapp (1893-1895) who then became mayor. See the article History of Memphis, Tennessee for more information.