Title: Senator John Knight Shields Letters

Date/Date Range :   1913

Extent: 0.1 linear feet

Abstract:

Collection consists of approximately 150 letters written to John Knight Shields in 1913. The letters congratulate him on winning the election to the U.S. Senate. The letters are written by businessmen, politicians, lawyers, members of the judiciary, family, friends, and others with connections to Tennessee or Senator Shields.

Call number: MS-3031

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

Aquisition Information:

Collection is property of Special Collections

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], Senator John Knight Shields Letters, MS-3031. University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Special Collections Library.

Collection consists of one folder.

John Knight Shields was born at Clinchdale (near Bean's Station), Tennessee on August 15, 1858. He studied law and was admitted to the Tennessee Bar in 1879. He served as chancellor of the twelfth chancery division from 1893 to 1894 and then returned to practicing law in Morristown, Tennessee. Shields served as an associate justice (1902-1910) and as the chief justice (1910-1913) of the Supreme Court of Tennessee until he was nominated for and elected as a U.S. Senator. Shields was reelected in 1918 and served in the Senate until March 3, 1925. He was unsuccessful in his 1924 bid for reelection. While a member of the U.S. Senate, Shields served on the Committee on Canadian Relations (63rd and 64th Congresses), Committee on Interoceanic Canals (65th Congress), and the Committee on Transportation and Sale of Meat Products (66th Congress). After his time in the Senate, Shields returned to Tennessee to practice law in Knoxville. He died at his Clinchdale country estate near Knoxville, Tennessee on September 30, 1934, and he was interred in the Memorial Cemetery in Knoxville.

Collection consists of approximately 150 letters written to John Knight Shields in 1913. The letters congratulate him on winning the election to the U.S. Senate. The letters are written by businessmen, politicians, lawyers, members of the judiciary, family, friends, and others with connections to Tennessee or Senator Shields.

• Judges.
• Legislators--United States.
• Shields, John Knight, 1858-1934.
• Tennessee, East.
• Tennessee--Supreme Court.
• United States--Congress--Senate.