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William E. "Bill" Brock Iii

Bill Brock and his family during his senate campaign in 1970.

William Edmondson

"Lion" by William Edmondson.

William Edmondson

Edmondson at work at home, October 1937.

William Edmondson

The statues by William Edmondson at the McClung Museum at the University of Tennessee.

William Gannaway "Parson" Brownlow

William Gannaway Brownlow.

William Gilbert Gaul

The Last Letter, by Gilbert Gaul, ca. 1890.

William Gilbert Gaul

"Rafting on the Cumberland," by William Gilbert Gaul, undated.

William Prentice Cooper Jr.

Prentice Cooper represented Bedford County in the Tennessee House of Representatives and served in the Tennessee State Senate before becoming governor of Tennessee.

William Prentice Cooper Jr.

The gravesite in Jenkins Chapel Cemetery of Prentice W. Cooper and his wife Argentine, parents of former Governor Prentice Cooper, Jr.

William Walker

William Walker, former president of Nicaragua.

Williams, A. N. C.

A. N. C. Williams, prominent African American merchant and community leader in Williamson County, was born into slavery in Spring Hill, Tennessee, in 1844. At age six, he was sold to D. R. Crutcher and moved to Franklin, Tennessee, where…

Williams, Charl Ormond

Educator, suffragist, and Democratic Party worker Charl Ormond Williams was born in Arlington, Tennessee, the third of six children of Crittenden and Minnie Williams. She graduated from Arlington's "high school on the hill" in 1903 and began teaching at Millington…

Williams, Hank

Few entertainers have conveyed the sincerity and realism reflected in Hank Williams's southern working class lyrics and singing style. Even fewer have enjoyed the lanky Alabaman's phenomenal degree of success. His songs permanently etched the nation's consciousness in the brief…

Williams, Jr., Avon N.

A powerful advocate for African Americans, Avon N. Williams Jr. became the leading African American lawyer in Tennessee in the protection and advancement of the rights of blacks in education, the workplace, criminal justice, and voting. Born in 1921 in…

Williams, Samuel Cole

Jurist and historian Samuel Cole Williams was born in Gibson County in 1864 and educated in the schools of Humboldt. Encouraged by Judge Horace Lurton--a family friend and later a U.S. Supreme Court justice--he enrolled in the Vanderbilt University law…

Williamson County

Centuries before Europeans settled in what was to become Williamson County the area was home to at least five prehistoric cultures. Over many centuries these occupants of the Harpeth Valley progressed from a nomadic existence to a settled lifestyle in…

Willis Jr., Archie Walter "A. W."

Civil rights lawyer and Memphis businessman A. W. Willis Jr. was born in Birmingham, Alabama, on March 16, 1925. Willis received his B.A. from Talladega College in 1950 and a law degree from the University of Wisconsin in 1953. He…

Wilma Rudolph (1940-1994) And The Tsu Tigerbelles

Rome Olympics.

Wilson County

The Tennessee General Assembly created Wilson County on October 26, 1799. Its prehistoric heritage is rich. The Sellars temple mound on Spring Creek, for example, yielded an outstanding piece of pre-Columbian sculpture that has been the emblem of the Tennessee…

Wilson Sporting Goods

Originally known as the Ashland Manufacturing Company, Wilson Sporting Goods was created in 1913 in Chicago as a subsidiary of the Swarzchild and Sulzberger meat packing concern. The company moved into the sporting goods trade by manufacturing gut strings for…

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