After the Civil War Beyond Carole Bucy Osher

After the Civil War & Beyond Carole Bucy Osher Lifelong Learning - Class 6 The Temple, Nashville

Election of 1860 The Highest Voter Turn-out in History – 81/2%

June 8, 1861

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Military Governor Andrew Johnson (Democrat)

Tennessee’s Exemption from the Emancipation Proclamation

Emerson Etheridge

John M. Lea & John Berrien Lindsley

Tennessee Escaped Military Reconstruction Ex-Confederates Returned to Power 1869 What did they do when they returned to power?

185711862 -1865 Harris, Isham Henry Democrat Johnson, Andrew Greene Democrat Brownlow, Whig. William G. Carter, Knox 1865 -1869 Republican Mc. Minn (Athens), Whig. Hamblin Senter, De. Witt C. (Morristown) 1869 -1871 Republican Brown, John C. Giles 1871 -1875 Whig-Democrat Porter, James D. Henry 1875 -1879 Whig-Democrat Franklin Marks, Albert S. (Winchester) 1879 -1881 Democrat Hawkins, Alvin Carroll 1881 -1883 Republican Bate, William B. Sumner 1883 -1887 Democrat Taylor, Robert Love Carter 1887 -1891 Democrat

After the Ratification of Tennessee’s Constitution of 1870…. . James C. Napier led a Delegation to Washington to Meet with President Grant

1876

1876 Candidates Samuel J. Tilden, Democrat Rutherford B. Hayes, Republican

1876 Puck Cartoon - “Counting Ballots”

The Compromise of 1877

David Mc. Kendree Key, Postmaster General, 1877 -1880

Mr. S. S. Clemens (Mark Twain) Hartford, N. Y. Near Boston, U. S. A. Source: www. goodreads. com

Horace Maynard Ambassador to Turkey, Postmaster General Source: www. knoxnews. com

The Gilded Age Presidents �James Garfield, 1881 � Chester Arthur, 1881 -1885 �Grover Cleveland, 1885 -1889 �Benjamin Harrison, 1889 -1993 � Appointed Howell Edmunds Jackson, Assoc. Justice, U. S. Supreme Court �Grover Cleveland, 1993 -1997 �William Mc. Kinley, 1896 -1901

Howell Edmunds Jackson Associate Supreme Court Justice, 1893 -1895

Governor Date Sworn In Party Affiliation Bate, William B. January 15, 1883 Democrat Taylor, Robert Love January 17, 1887 Buchanan, John P. January 19, 1891 Democrat Farm-Labor But ran as a Democrat Turney, Peter January 16, 1893 Democrat Taylor, Robert Love January 21, 1897 Democrat Mc. Millin, Benton Jaunary 16, 1899 Democrat Frazier, James B. January 19, 1903 Democrat March 21, 1905 Democrat Patterson, Malcolm R. January 17, 1907 Democrat Hooper, Ben. W. January 26, 1911 Republican Cox, John I.

1894 Governor’s Election Democrats: Peter J. Turney Votes: 104, 356 Populists: Aaron Lemuel Mims; Votes: 23, 088 Republicans: H. Clay Evans, Chattanooga; Votes: 105, 104

Henry Clay Evans, Commissioner of Pensions; then Consul General- London

Memphis Commercial Appeal Editor Edward Ward Carmack Amendment to the Railroad Rate Act 1906

The Progressive Presidents

Luke E. Wright, Secretary of War 1908 -09

Jacob Mc. Gavock Dickinson Secretary of War 1909 -1911

James C. Napier, Register of the U. S. Treasury, 1911 -1913

Horace Harmon Lurt 0 n, Appointed Associate Justice by William Howard Taft 1909 -1914

President Woodrow Wilson’s Treasury Secretary – William Gibbs Mc. Adoo �An ardent prohibitionist - Unsuccessful candidate for Democratic Nominee for President, 1920 and 1924 (lost to Ohio Governor James Cox in 1920; in 1924 – lost to John W. Davis) �Was elected to the Senate from California in 1932

James Clark Mc. Reynolds, Attorney General for Woodrow Wilson; appointed to the Supreme Court (Served on Court, 1914 -1941)

The Hughes court, 1932 -1937 Justice Mc. Reynolds

FDR’s Court-Packing Plan, 1937

Edward Terry Sanford, Associate Justice, appointed by Warren G. Harding (Served 1923 -1930) The Taft Court

Cordell Hull, Secretary of State, 1933 -1945

Abe Fortas, Associate Justice, Appointed by Lyndon Johnson Served on Supreme Court: 1965 -1969

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