Title: Knox County Courthouse Photograph

Date/Date Range :   circa 1943-1947

Extent: 2.0 linear feet

Abstract:

This collection consists of a framed black and white photograph of seven men in the 3rd floor courtroom of the Knox County Courthouse, circa 1943-1947.

Call number: MS-2979

Repository: University of Tennessee Special Collections Library, Knoxville, TN

Aquisition Information:

This collection is property of the University of Tennessee Special Collections Library.

Access Restrictions:

Collection is open for research.

Copyright:

The copyright interests in this collection remain with the creator. For more information, contact the Special Collections Library.

Preferred Citation:

[Identification of Item], Knox County Courthouse Photograph, MS-2979. University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Special Collections Library.

This collection consists of one oversized box.

Grafton Green served as Chief Justice from 1923-1947.

Albert B. Neil, Sr. (1873-1966) was a citizen of Davidson County, Tennessee, former State Representative, and jurist of the Tennessee Supreme Court.

Frank H. Gailor was a County Attorney and judge.

Alan M. Prewitt was born in Grand Junction, Hardeman County, Tennessee, February 1, 1893. Prewitt served in the U.S. Army during World War I. He was a Presidential Elector for Tennessee in 1916, and was a member of Tennessee Democratic State Executive Committee in 1925. He was delegate to Democratic National Convention from Tennessee in 1940. In 1942, Prewitt became a justice of Tennessee state supreme court.

Alexander W. Chambliss was Mayor of Chattanooga from 1919-1923. He was re-elected in 1923, but resigned from the office a month later to accept an appointment to the Tennessee Supreme Court.

Roy H. Beeler was born in 1882. He served as Knox County Election Commission Chairman from 1919-1925 and was appointed Assistant State Attorney General in 1927. Beeler served by special appointment as attorney for the Railroad and Public Utilities Commission from 1927-1931, and as Solicitor General of Tennessee from 1931-1932. In 1932 Beeler was named Attorney General and Reporter for the State of Tennessee. He was Tennessee's 50th Attorney General and served longer than any of his predecessors, 22 years, being elected to 8 year terms in 1934, 1942, and 1950 and was, at the time of his death, the State's most highly paid official. He died in 1954.

This collection consists of a framed black and white photograph of seven men in the 3rd floor courtroom of the Knox County Courthouse, circa 1943-1947, which was then used for Federal Court. The men in the photograph are Grafton Green, Albert Bramlett Neil, Frank H. Gailor, Alan M. Prewitt, Alexander W. Chambliss, Roy H. Beeler, and one unidentified man. The photograph has the autographs of the men at the bottom of the print.

This collection is associated with the Lucile and Warren Kennerly Papers. For more information, see MS-2656.

• Knoxville (Tenn.) -- History.
• Knox County (Tenn.) -- History.
• Judges -- Tennessee.
• Tennessee. Supreme Court -- Officials and employees.
• Chambliss, Alexander.