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词条 Richard Houston Dudley
释义

  1. Early life

  2. Career

  3. Personal life

  4. References

  5. External links

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|name=Richard H. Dudley
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|birth_place=Bedford County, Tennessee
|death_date={{death date and age|mf=y|1914|8|30|1836|7|29}}
|death_place=Nashville, Tennessee
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Richard Houston Dudley (July 29, 1836 – August 30, 1914) was an American Democratic politician, Confederate soldier and businessman. He served as the Mayor of Nashville, Tennessee from 1897 to 1900.

Early life

Dudley was born near Shelbyville in Bedford County, Tennessee on July 29, 1836.[1]

Career

Dudley served in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War of 1861-1865.[1][2] In May 1861, he enlisted in Company I, Maney's 1st Tennessee Infantry.[3]

In 1873, Dudley moved to Nashville where was a member of the wholesale grocery firm of Ordlay, Dudley and McGuire, and the hardware firm of Dudley Brothers & Lipscomb.[4] He served as Mayor of Nashville from 1897 to 1900.[2][5][6] He was supported by Democrats and Irish Americans who lived in Nashville during his campaign.[5]

Personal life

Dudley was married to Mattie Rose in September, 1865.[1] She died soon after and he remarried to Mary E. Beasley on April 4, 1868, who died in 1907.[1] He had no children.[1]

Dudley died on August 30, 1914.

References

1. ^Friends of Metropolitan Archives of Nashville and Davidson County, TN
2. ^Clement Anselm Evans, O. M. Roberts, J. J. Dickison, Robert S. Bridgers, William Harwar Parker, Confederate Military History: Tennessee, Broadfoot, 1987, p. 457 [https://books.google.com/books?id=eMPZAAAAMAAJ&q=%22Richard+Houston+Dudley%22&dq=%22Richard+Houston+Dudley%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=HghJUeanHsG-0QWim4HoBg&ved=0CEYQ6AEwBQ]
3. ^http://www.confederatevets.com/documents/dudley_tn_cv_10_14_ob.shtml
4. ^William Waller, Nashville in the 1890s, Nashville, Tennessee: Vanderbilt University Press, 1970, p. 92 [https://books.google.com/books?id=YuYlAAAAMAAJ&q=%22Richard+Houston+Dudley%22&dq=%22Richard+Houston+Dudley%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=HghJUeanHsG-0QWim4HoBg&ved=0CDQQ6AEwAQ]
5. ^Frank Burns, Davidson County, Memphis, Tennessee: Memphis State University Press, 1989, p. 69 [https://books.google.com/books?id=EUZ5AAAAMAAJ&q=%22Richard+Houston+Dudley%22&dq=%22Richard+Houston+Dudley%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=HghJUeanHsG-0QWim4HoBg&ved=0CD0Q6AEwAw]
6. ^Nashville Library

External links

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8 : 1836 births|1914 deaths|Confederate States Army soldiers|Tennessee Democrats|Mayors of Nashville, Tennessee|People from Bedford County, Tennessee|People of Tennessee in the American Civil War|19th-century American politicians

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