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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—TennesseeJohn Knight SHIELDS
(1858-1934)
Senate Years of Service:
1913-1925Party: DemocratSHIELDS, John Knight, a
Senator from Tennessee; born at “Clinchdale,” near
Bean’s Station, Grainger County, Tenn., August 15, 1858; was
educated by private tutors; studied law; admitted to the bar in
1879 and practiced in Grainger and adjoining counties until 1893;
chancellor of the twelfth chancery division 1893-1894; resumed the
practice of law in Morristown, Hamblen County, Tenn.; associate
justice of the supreme court of Tennessee 1902-1910, chief justice
1910-1913, when he resigned, having been nominated as a candidate
for Senator; elected as a Democrat to the United States Senate in
1913; reelected in 1918 and served from March 4, 1913, to March 3,
1925; unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1924; chairman,
Committee on Canadian Relations (Sixty-third and Sixty-fourth
Congresses), Committee on Interoceanic Canals (Sixty-fifth
Congress), Committee on Transportation and Sale of Meat Products
(Sixty-sixth Congress); resumed the practice of law in Knoxville,
Tenn.; died at his country estate, “Clinchdale,” near
Knoxville, September 30, 1934; interment in Memorial Cemetery,
Knoxville, Tenn.
Bibliography
Dictionary of American Biography; McKellar, Kenneth.
“John Knight Shields,” in Tennessee Senators as Seen
by One of Their Successors. Kingsport, Tenn.: Southern
Publishers, Inc., 1942: 564-596.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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