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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—TennesseeWilliam Charles SALMON
(1868-1925)
SALMON, William Charles, a
Representative from Tennessee; born near Paris, Henry County,
Tenn., on April 3, 1868; attended the public schools, Edgewood
Normal School, Dickson College, and Valparaiso University at
Valparaiso, Ind.; was graduated in law from Cumberland University,
Lebanon, Tenn., in 1897; was admitted to the bar the same year and
commenced practice in Columbia, Maury County, Tenn.; taught in
public and private schools for six years and also engaged in
agricultural pursuits; served as special circuit judge of the
eleventh judicial circuit of Tennessee in 1908; president of the
Columbia Board of Education 1912-1922; commanded an Artillery
battery during the First World War; elected as a Democrat to the
Sixty-eighth Congress (March 4, 1923-March 3, 1925); died in
Washington, D.C., on May 13, 1925; interment in Rose Hill Cemetery,
Columbia, Tenn.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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