Rogers Caldwell
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Rogers Caldwell was an American businessman and banker from Tennessee. He was known as the "J. P. Morgan of the South." He was the founder and president of Caldwell and Company and its subsidiary, the
Longview, Caldwell's childhood home, now listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Henry Hollis Horton
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Henry Hollis Horton was an American attorney, farmer and politician who served as the 36th governor of Tennessee from 1927 to 1933. He was elevated to the position when Governor Austin Peay died in of
Rogers Caldwell
…Lea, he acquired banks and two newspapers, Memphis Commercial Appeal and the Knoxville Journal. (Lea also controlled the Nashville Tennessean.) When Henry Horton, Lea's friend and business associate, became Governor of Tennessee in 1927, Caldwell and Lea received no-bid contracts to build highways in the state…
Henry Hollis Horton