Albert S. Marks
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Albert Smith Marks was an American attorney, soldier and politician. He was the 21st governor of Tennessee from 1879 to 1881. Prior to that, he had served as a state chancery court judge. Marks fought
Photograph of Marks by the Calvert Brothers
Portrait of Marks as governor by Washington B. Cooper, c. 1880
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James D. Porter
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James Davis Porter was an American attorney, politician, educator, and officer of the Confederate Army. He served as the 20th governor of Tennessee from 1875 to 1879. He was subsequently appointed as
Albert S. Marks
…Richard M. Edwards of Cleveland. Marks was the first lifelong Democrat to be elected after the Civil War (his two predecessors, John C. Brown and James D. Porter, had been Whigs before the war). Like his two immediate predecessors, the major issue confronting the Marks administration was the state's debt crisis…
Portrait by George Dury, c. 1877
Porter, photographed later in life
Confederate Memorial Hall on the Vanderbilt University campus.