John Meredith Bass
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John Meredith Bass was an American banker, planter and Whig politician based in Nashville, Tennessee. He was active in politics in the city and region. Among his roles was serving as the mayor of Nash
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Felix Grundy
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Felix Grundy was an American attorney and politician who served as the 13th U.S. attorney general. He also had served several terms as a congressman and as a U.S. senator from Tennessee. He was known
John Meredith Bass
…receiver" of Nashville, for which he gave a $1 million bond. On January 7, 1829, Bass married Malvina Grundy, the eighteen-year-old daughter of Senator Felix Grundy and his wife Nancy. Bass became a personal friend of wealthy slave trader John Armfield, who established a plantation in Nashville after moving from…
Felix Grundy
Portrait by George Dury, c.1858–1859