Biography
He was born on November 14, 1864 in Marshall, North Carolina. He attended the public schools and taught in the public schools of Marshall from 1882 to 1886. He studied medicine in the Louisville (Kentucky) Medical College and commenced the practice of his profession in Wears Valley, Tennessee in 1889.
He moved to Sevierville, Tennessee in Sevier County in 1890. During the Spanish-American War, he served as an assistant surgeon. He was the postmaster of Sevierville from 1899 to 1904. He was a member of the Tennessee Senate from 1904 to 1906. He was elected as a Republican to the Sixty-first Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Walter P. Brownlow. He served from November 8, 1910 to March 3, 1911, but he was not a candidate for renomination in 1910. He resumed the practice of medicine and also engaged in the real estate business. He died in Sevierville, Tennessee on July 13, 1923. He was interred in Shiloh Cemetery.
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