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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—TennesseeJim Nance McCORD
(1879-1968)
McCORD, Jim Nance, a
Representative from Tennessee; born in Unionville, Bedford County,
Tenn., March 17, 1879; attended the public schools and also had
private instructors; employed as a clerk in a hardware store in
1894; engaged in selling books and stationery at Lewisburg, Tenn.,
1897-1900; traveling salesman 1900-1910; editor and publisher of
the Marshall Gazette, Lewisburg, Tenn., 1910; mayor of Lewisburg,
Tenn., 1916-1942; auctioneer 1920-1943; member of the Marshall
County Court 1915-1942; elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-eighth
Congress (January 3, 1943-January 3, 1945); was not a candidate for
renomination in 1944; elected Governor of Tennessee in 1944;
reelected in 1946 for the term ending in January 1949; resumed the
publishing business; member of State constitutional convention in
1953; Commissioner of Conservation, State of Tennessee, 1953-1958;
delegate at large to the National Democratic Conventions in 1940
and 1956; maintained his interest in journalism; died in Nashville,
Tenn., September 2, 1968; interment in Lone Oak Cemetery,
Lewisburg, Tenn.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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