| 词条 | Justin Potter |
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| name =Justin Potter | image = | image_size = | caption = | birth_name = | birth_date = 1898 | birth_place =Liberty, Tennessee | death_date = 1961 | death_place = | death_cause = cancer | resting_place = | resting_place_coordinates = | residence = | nationality = American | other_names = | known_for = | education = | employer = | occupation =Businessman | title = | salary = | networth = | term = | predecessor = | successor = | party = | boards = | religion = | spouse = Valere (Blair) Potter | children = | parents = | relatives =David K. Wilson (son-in-law) Justin P. Wilson (grandson) | box_width = }} Justin Smith "Jet" Potter (1898–1961)[1] was an American businessman from Tennessee. His business interests included coal mining and sales and distribution in Kentucky; a chemical corporation; insurance; banking; and media holdings. Staunchly opposed to labor unions, he hired armed guards to keep them away from his coal mines. He was also a strident opponent of the Tennessee Valley Authority. Early lifePotter was born in 1898 in Liberty, Tennessee.[2][3] His father was a banker.[3] When he was eight years old, he moved to Nashville, Tennessee with his family.[3] He had a brother, Edward Potter, Jr. (1896-1976), who founded the Commerce Union Bank in Nashville (now merged with Bank of America).[4] CareerIn 1920, he founded the Nashville Coal Co., a coal distribution company.[2][4] By 1955, it had become the tenth largest coal company in the United States.[2][3] That year, he sold it to businessman Cyrus Eaton (1883–1979) for US$18 million.[2][3][5] In 1958, he became the majority shareholder of Virginia-Carolina Chemical Co. and served as its President.[2] Additionally, he served on the Board of Directors of the Cherokee Insurance Corporation.[2] He owned over 100,000 acres of coalfields in Western Kentucky as President of the Crescent Coal Co., headquartered ion Central City, Kentucky.[2][4][6] For example, he owned a large coal mine in Uniontown, Kentucky.[7] Under his leadership, the presence of labor unions were not allowed and he was categorically opposed to them.[2][3] He personally expressed his disapproval of the tactics used by union leader John L. Lewis (1880–1969).[6] He even hired armed guards to keep union members away from his coal mines.[4] Additionally, he was a mentor to Joe C. Davis, Jr. (1919–1989) in the coal distribution industry.[8] Potter was a strident opponent of the Tennessee Valley Authority and tried to unseat both Estes Kefauver (1903–1963) and Albert Gore, Sr. (1907–1998), who supported the TVA.[2] In Farm and Ranch Magazine, of which he was majority owner from 1956 to 1959, the TVA was routinely called a "socialistic" project.[2] Moreover, he bought full-page advertisements in the Chicago Tribune in which he called the project a "communist rathole."[3] He became one of the wealthiest men in the Southern United States, with an estimated wealth of US$200 million.[2] Personal lifeHe married Valere (Blair) Potter, a philanthropist who helped found the Peabody Preparatory School of Musical Arts in 1964, now known as the Blair School of Music at Vanderbilt University.[9][10] The Valere Blair Potter Chair at the Blair School of Music as well as the Valere Potter Scholarship Fund at the Vanderbilt University School of Nursing is also named in her honour.[11][12] They had a daughter, Anne Potter, who married David K. Wilson (1919–2007). Their son, Justin P. Wilson, is a Republican politician in Tennessee (currently Comptroller of the Treasury) and an adjunct professor at Vanderbilt University.[4] Potter suffered a stroke in the 1950s.[2] He died of cancer in December 1961.[2][13] LegacyThe Boy Scouts center on the corner of Woodmont Boulevard and Hillsboro Road in Nashville is named in his honor.[4][14] References1. ^[https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/180914229 Grave] Memorial ID: 180914229. Retrieved March 23, 2018. {{DEFAULTSORT:Potter, Justin}}2. ^1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Associated Press, [https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1817&dat=19611210&id=ThsfAAAAIBAJ&sjid=FJoEAAAAIBAJ&pg=5879,1298494 Tennessee Millionaire, Justin Potter, Dead], The Tuscaloosa News, December 10, 1961 3. ^1 2 3 4 5 6 Heinz Dietrich Fischer, Erika J. Fischer, National Reporting, 1941–1986: From Labor Conflicts to the Challenger Disaster, Walter de Gruyter, 1988, Volume 2, pp. 145-146 [https://books.google.com/books?id=PTQQQECdT4QC&pg=PA145] 4. ^1 2 3 4 5 Bill Carey, Justin Wilson walks on water and makes grandfather proud, NashvillePost.com, October 24, 2000 5. ^William Graebner, Coal-mining Safety in the Progressive Period: The Political Economy of Reform, Louisville, Kentucky: University Press of Kentucky, 1976, p. 237 [https://books.google.com/books?id=A8wndLJk3tcC&pg=PA237] 6. ^1 [https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/8862276/ Lewis Union May Dominate Nation Soon Washington], The Daily News, July 29, 1946 7. ^Michael D. Guillerman, Face Boss: The Memoir of a Western Kentucky Coal Miner, Knoxville, Tennessee: University of Tennessee Press, 2009, p. 11 [https://books.google.com/books?id=5jKECrP8xGIC&pg=PA11] 8. ^Joe C. Francis Foundation 9. ^Grace Bassett, Did Nixon Gifts Stir Milk Supports Hike?, The San Francisco Examiner, November 3, 1972 10. ^Cornelia Heard named holder of Valere Blair Potter Chair, Quarter Note, Spring 2009 11. ^Valere Potter Scholarship Fund 12. ^Internal Scholarships (MSN Students) Offered through Vanderbilt 13. ^[https://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=FB0C14FF3E591A728DDDA90994DA415B818AF1D3 JUSTIN POTTER, 63, A FINANCIER, DIES; Headed Coal, Insurance and Chemical Firms in South], The New York Times, December 10, 1961 14. ^Boy Scouts of America: Middle Tennessee Council 8 : 1898 births|1961 deaths|People from DeKalb County, Tennessee|People from Nashville, Tennessee|American chief executives|American businesspeople in the coal industry|Deaths from cancer in Tennessee|People associated with the Boy Scouts of America |
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