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The District Attorney's office in Nashville traces its prosecutorial lineage back to Andrew Jackson, the seventh president of the United States. Jackson the son of Presbyterian scots-irish immigrants Andrew and Elizabeth Jackson was born in Lancaster County, South Carolina on March 15, 1757; read law in North Carolina and eventually moved to the western-most part of what was then North Carolina, later Tennessee, in 1787. Only a few years before, in 1784, Nashville had been recognized officially as a settlement by the North Carolina legislature. When Jackson arrived, it was a lawless town in need of a forceful and energetic prosecutor, and he was appointed to that position by Judge John McNairy in 1788. Two years later, the United States Congress passed an act that separated Tennessee from North Carolina and made it a territory. The legislation further appointed a territorial governor and named Andrew Jackson as the Attorney General for the Mero District, as the area was known at the time. Jackson held this position until June 1, 1796 when Tennessee formally became a state, and Jackson was then elected its first congressman. Jackson later became a national war hero during the War of 1812 and eventually parlayed his prominence into the presidency.
Almost thirty years later, another famous American began his public career as District Attorney of Nashville. In 1818 Sam Houston became the city’s chief prosecutor and served for two years. He went to Congress and was Governor of Tennessee before moving to Texas where he led the fight for independence. Houston defeated the army of Mexican general Santa Anna in a stunning victory at the Battle of San Jacinto. He later became president of the Republic of Texas. When Texas became a state, Houston was one of its first two senators and later its governor.
James Rains (sometime spelled Raines) was born in Nashville and graduated from Yale University in 1854. He returned to study the law and became District Attorney in 1860. When the Civil War broke out, he enlisted in April 1861 as a private in the Confederate Army. Over the next eighteen months, he performed with courage and distinction ascending to the rank of brigadier general in November 1862. Eight weeks later, Rains was shot and killed instantly while leading his brigade in an attack against Union forces at the Battle of Stones River in Murfreesboro, TN.. S. Tuthill was born in Illinois but early in this legal career served as District Attorney in Nashville. Afterward, he returned to his home state and became the City Attorney for Chicago, and later, the United States Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois. He culminated his legal career by presiding over the first juvenile court in the United States in 1899. Judge Tuthill pioneered the approach that a juvenile court’s responsibility was first to focus on the welfare of the child and then to take into account the welfare of the community. He had considerable influence in this emerging field, and by 1925, all but two states had followed suit establishing juvenile courts. This approach to juvenile justice continued until the early 1960s when courts, including the United States Supreme Court, began extending due process protections to juvenile defendants.
Other former prosecutors also went on to distinguished careers. G. W. L. Marr, A. J. Caldwell, Richard Atkinson and Carlton Loser were U. S. Congressmen. Alfred Balch, graduated from Princeton in 1805 and became District Attorney four years later. A friend of Andrew Jackson, he was appointed Commissioner of the Indian Treaties during Jackson’s presidency. In 1840, President Van Buren appointed him a federal district court judge in the State of Florida. William B. Bate served in the U. S. Army during the Mexican War and was a general in the Confederate Army during the Civil War. Later, he became governor of Tennessee and finally United States Senator until his death in 1905.
J. Carlton Loser was Nashville’s longest serving District Attorney holding office from 1934 until 1956 when he was elected to Congress where he served until 1962. Thomas H. Shriver had the second longest tenure as the city’s chief prosecutor from 1966 until 1987. Held in high esteem by the legal profession, Shriver was appointed a criminal court judge after a previous judge resigned in disgrace. He held that position until his untimely death a decade later.
Richard Henry Boyd was born a slave in Noxumber County, Mississippi, and given the name Dick Gray by his master. After the Civil War, he moved to Texas, changed his name and trained for the ministry. He attended Bishop College in Marshall, Texas, and then moved to Nashville in 1896 to establish a religious publishing house. Boyd believed that African Americans should operate their own businesses and that black churches should publish their own religious materials. His religious publishing business, the first black business of its kind, later became known as the National Baptist Publishing Board. Still in family hands, the NBPB prints over fourteen million books and periodicals a year. A leader in Nashville's African American community, Boyd also co-founded the One-Cent Savings Bank, now Citizens Bank, and established the Nashville Globe, a prominent newspaper in Nashville's African American community until 1960.
CARMACK, EDWARD WARD (1858-1908)Newspaperman, U. S. congressman, senator, and editor of the Nashville TENNESSEAN, Edward Ward Carmack was a charismatic and eloquent journalist and politician who was shot to death on Seventh Avenue, North, by opponents in the battle over Prohibition. Born in Sumner County near Castalian Springs, Carmack grew up poor, without a father, and never finished school. As a young man he trained to be a lawyer and discovered a talent for both writing and speaking. After working as editor of newspapers in both Nashville and Memphis and serving terms in both the U.S. House of Representatives and the Senate, Carmack returned to Nashville and took a position with the TENNESSEAN, then a prohibitionist newspaper. Carmack's former friend and sponsor Duncan Cooper was aligned with Governor Patterson and the anti-prohibitionist forces. Carmack repeatedly attacked his former mentor in the TENNESSEAN, and, after a particularly critical reference, Cooper and his son Robin shot Carmack on the street. Both were convicted of second-degree murder and later pardoned by Governor Patterson.

A young French Canadian, Charleville came to this area to assist a French fur trader who had established a trading post before 1700 to trade with the Shawnee. In the early 1700s, the Cherokee began to drive out the Shawnee tribe, and by 1714 the post was abandoned. Because of this trading post, however, and then in the 1760s the arrival of another French Canadian fur trader, Timothy Demonbreun, the large salt lick north of the downtown area became known as the French Lick. (See Demonbreun.)
CHEEK, JOEL OWSLEY (1852-1935)
Joel Owsley Cheek was the inventor of Maxwell House Coffee, the blend that became so popular that it made Nashville the center of the nation's coffee business in the early twentieth century. Cheek began his career as a salesman for a wholesale grocery concern. He traveled by horseback throughout the mid-South and witnessed firsthand the growing popularity of coffee. When he became a partner in the grocery business, he began experimenting with coffee blends and was the first person to come up with the idea of blending top quality coffee beans. In 1892, he developed a recipe for a blend of premium beans and convinced the manager of the Maxwell House Hotel to try the coffee and then to serve it exclusively. The coffee was so well received by the hotel's guests that the owner gave Cheek permission to use the Maxwell House name for the coffee. In part because of the reputation of the Maxwell House Hotel, known for its elegance and famous visitors, sales skyrocketed. Maxwell House Coffee was eventually sold all over the world, and Cheek later sold the business to General Foods. Joel Cheek's cousin Leslie Owen Cheek was in business with him and was the builder of Cheekwood Mansion.

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