| 词条 | John Meredith Bass |
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| name =John Meredith Bass | image = Bass.jpg | image_size = | caption = | birth_name = | birth_date = January 19, 1804 | birth_place = Nashville, Tennessee, U.S. | death_date = March 14, 1878 | death_place = New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S. | death_cause = | resting_place =Mount Olivet Cemetery | resting_place_coordinates = | residence = Nashville, Tennessee, U.S. Beersheba Springs, Tennessee | nationality = | other_names = | known_for = | education = | alma mater = University of Nashville Transylvania University | employer = | occupation =Politician, banker, businessman, planter | title = | salary = | networth = | term = | predecessor = | successor = | party = | boards = | religion = | spouse =Malvina Grundy | children = | parents =Peter Bass | relatives =Felix Grundy (father-in-law) | box_width = }} John Meredith Bass (January 19, 1804– March 14, 1878) was an American banker, planter and Whig politician. He served as the Mayor of Nashville, Tennessee from 1833 to 1834, and again in 1869. Early lifeJohn Meredith Bass was born on January 19, 1804 in Nashville, Tennessee.[1][2] His father, Peter Bass,[3] was a real estate investor in Nashville.[1] His mother was from Kentucky.[1] Bass was educated in Kentucky.[1] He graduated from the University of Nashville, and earned a law degree from Transylvania University.[1] He was "admitted to the bar in 1830."[4] CareerBass served on the board of aldermen of Nashville from 1831 to 1832, and as the mayor of Nashville in 1833 as a Whig.[5][6] Additionally, he was "one of the commissioners who built the Nashville water-works."[5] Bass became the president of the Union Bank of Tennessee in 1837.[4][7][8] He was also the founding president of the Southern Life Insurance Company.[5] Additionally, he was the owner of plantations in Louisiana and Arkansas.[7] Bass served on the board of trustees of the Nashville Female Academy (also known as the Old Academy),[9] and the University of Nashville.[4] In 1869, Bass served as the "receiver" of Nashville, for which he gave a $1 million bond.[5] Personal life and deathOn January 7, 1829, Bass married Malvina Grundy, daughter of Senator Felix Grundy, after she eloped at the age of eighteen.[7][3][10] He was a personal friend of slave trader John Armfield.[4][11] Like him, he owned a cottage in Beersheba Springs, Tennessee.[11] Bass died on March 14, 1878 in New Orleans, where he was visiting his daughter.[1] He was buried with his wife in the Mount Olivet Cemetery in Nashville.[2] References1. ^1 2 3 4 5 {{cite news|title=THE LATE JOHN M. BASS.|url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/118791064/?terms=%22john%2Bm.%2BBass%22|accessdate=November 3, 2017|work=The Tennessean|date=March 23, 1878|via=Newspapers.com|registration=yes|page=4}} {{s-start}}{{s-off}}{{succession box | before = William Armstrong | title = Mayor of Nashville, Tennessee | years = 1833–1834 | after = John Patton Erwin}}{{succession box | before = Augustus E. Alden | title = Mayor of Nashville, Tennessee | years = 1869–1869 | after = Kindred Jenkins Morris}}{{s-end}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Bass, John Meredith}}2. ^1 Friends of Metropolitan Archives of Nashville and Davidson County, TN 3. ^1 John Roderick Heller, Democracy's Lawyer: Felix Grundy of the Old Southwest, Louisiana State University Press, 2010, p. 173 [https://books.google.com/books?id=u8mM8D9RVu4C&pg=PA173&dq=%22John+Meredith+Bass%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=-dvuUK_6FoST0QWH1YH4CA&ved=0CDYQ6AEwAg#v=onepage&q=%22John%20Meredith%20Bass%22&f=false] 4. ^1 2 3 {{cite journal|last1=Howell|first1=Isabel|title=John Armfield, Slave-trader|journal=Tennessee Historical Quarterly|date=March 1943|volume=2|issue=1|pages=3–29|jstor=42620772}} 5. ^1 2 3 {{cite news|title=A Useful Citizen's Services.|url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/118790682/?terms=%22John%2BM.%2BBass%22|accessdate=November 3, 2017|work=The Tennessean|date=March 16, 1878|page=4|via=Newspapers.com|registration=yes}} 6. ^Nashville Public Library: Mayors of Nashville, Tennessee 7. ^1 2 [https://books.google.com/books?id=3XIjAQAAIAAJ&q=%22John+Meredith+Bass%22&dq=%22John+Meredith+Bass%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=-dvuUK_6FoST0QWH1YH4CA&ved=0CFkQ6AEwCQ Publications, Issues 51-55, East Tennessee Historical Society, 1983] 8. ^[https://books.google.com/books?id=mxy8GwAACAAJ&dq=%22John+Meredith+Bass%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=-dvuUK_6FoST0QWH1YH4CA&ved=0CEEQ6AEwBA Report from the President and Cashier of the Union Bank of Tennessee, to the Tennessee Legislature, November 15, 1843] 9. ^{{cite news|title=The Old Academy.|url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/121955893/?terms=%22A.%2BL.%2BP.%2BGreen%22|accessdate=April 19, 2018|work=Republican Banner|location=Nashville, Tennessee|date=January 9, 1874|page=4|via=Newspapers.com|registration=yes}} 10. ^Alfred Leland Crabb, Peabody and Alfred Leland Crabb: The story of Peabody as reflected in selected writings of Alfred Leland Crabb, Williams Press, 1977, p. 186 11. ^1 Robert S. Brandt, Touring Middle Tennessee Backroads, John F. Blair Publisher, 1995, p. 383 [https://books.google.com/books?id=z6ntnxM0s20C&pg=PA383] 12 : 1804 births|1878 deaths|University of Nashville alumni|Transylvania University alumni|Mayors of Nashville, Tennessee|American bankers|Businesspeople from Tennessee|American insurance businesspeople|American planters|Tennessee Whigs|19th-century American politicians|Burials at Mount Olivet Cemetery (Nashville) |
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