Benjamin Augustine Enloe
18 January 1848 - 8 July 1922
ENLOE, Benjamin Augustine, a
Representative from Tennessee; born near Clarksburg, Carroll County,
Tenn., January 18, 1848; attended the public schools, Bethel College,
McKenzie, Tenn., and the Cumberland University, Lebanon, Tenn.; while a
student at the latter institution in 1869 was elected a member of the
State house of representatives; reelected under the new constitution in
1870; was graduated from the law department of Cumberland University in
1872; was admitted to the bar in 1873 and commenced practice in Jackson,
Tenn.; delegate to the Democratic National Convention in 1872; appointed a
commissioner by Governor Marks in 1878 to negotiate a settlement of the
State debt; served on the State executive committee 1878-1880; delegate to
the Democratic National Convention in 1880; edited the Jackson Tribune and
Sun 1874-1886; elected as a Democrat to the Fiftieth and to the three
succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1887-March 3, 1895); chairman, Committee
on Education (Fifty-second and Fifty-third Congresses); unsuccessful
candidate for reelection in 1894 to the Fifty-fourth Congress; edited the
Daily Sun at Nashville, Tenn., for two years; moved to Louisville, Ky.,
and edited the Louisville Dispatch for two years; secretary of the State
fair commission and director of exhibits from Tennessee at St. Louis
World’s Fair in 1903; elected railroad commissioner of Tennessee and
served from 1904 until his death in Nashville, Tenn., July 8, 1922;
interment in Mount Olivet Cemetery. |
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