Jere Baxter
Politician
1852 – 1904
Who was Jere Baxter?
Jere Baxter was a Tennessee businessman, lawyer, and politician who founded the Tennessee Central Railroad, established a newspaper in Nashville, served in the Tennessee State Senate, helped found the communities of South Pittsburg, Tennessee, and Sheffield, Alabama, and unsuccessfully sought the Democratic Party nomination for governor of Tennessee in 1890. Baxter, Tennessee, is named for him.
Baxter was born on February 11, 1852, in Nashville, the son of Nathaniel Baxter, a politician and judge. After graduating from Montgomery Bell Academy, he studied law and went into legal publishing, issuing The Legal Reporter, the nine-volume bound compilation of which came to be commonly known as Baxter's Reports.
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