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John Knight Shields


United States Senator from Tennessee
In office March 4, 1913 – March 3, 1925
Preceded by	William R. Webb
Succeeded by	Lawrence Tyson

Personal details
Born	(1858-08-15)August 15, 1858 Bean Station, Tennessee
Died	September 30, 1934(1934-09-30) (aged 76) Knoxville, Tennessee
Political party	Democratic

John Knight Shields (August 15, 1858 – September 30, 1934) was a Democratic United States Senator from Tennessee from 1913 to 1925. He also served as an associate justice on the Tennessee Supreme Court.

Biography

Shields was born at his family's estate "Clinchdale", near the early pioneer settlement of Bean's Station, Tennessee in Grainger County. His education as a youth was by private tutors, a sign of the family's affluence. He studied law and was admitted to the Tennessee bar in 1879. He practiced in the counties surrounding his home until 1893, when he was named Chancellor of the former 12th Chancery Division. The next year, he resumed private practice in nearby Morristown, in Hamblen County.

In 1902, Shields was nominated in the Democratic primary to succeed retiring incumbent David L. Snodgrass to become an associate justice of the Tennessee Supreme Court,^[1] an office which he held until 1910 when he was named chief justice. He resigned that post in 1913, becoming the last Tennessean elected to the U.S. Senate by the Tennessee General Assembly prior to the 17th Amendment coming into effect. Shields was popularly reelected in 1918 but in 1924 lost the Democratic nomination to Lawrence Tyson, and returned to the private practice of law, this time in Knoxville.

While in the Senate, Shields served as the chairman of several committees. He chaired the Committee on Canadian Relations in the 63rd and 64th Congresses, the Committee on Interoceanic Canals in the 65th Congress, and the Committee on the Sale of Meat Products in the 66th Congress.

Shields died at his estate "Clinchdale" and is buried in Knoxville's Memorial Cemetery.

References

^ "No Deadlock", Knoxville Sentinel (January 20, 1902), p. 4.

External links

Media related to John K. Shields at Wikimedia Commons
John K. Shields at Find a Grave
John K. Shields Papers Archived 2016-08-10 at the Wayback Machine, University of Tennessee Knoxville Libraries

United States Congress. "John K. Shields (id: S000363)". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.

Party political offices
First	Democratic nominee for U.S. Senator from Tennessee (Class 2) 1918	Succeeded by Lawrence Tyson
U.S. Senate
Preceded by William R. Webb	U.S. senator (Class 2) from Tennessee 1913–1925 Served alongside: Luke Lea, Kenneth McKellar	Succeeded by Lawrence Tyson

v t e United States senators from Tennessee
Class 1	Cocke A. Jackson Smith J. Anderson Campbell Eaton Grundy Foster Grundy Nicholson Foster Turney Jones Johnson Patterson Brownlow Johnson Key Bailey H. Jackson Whitthorne Bate Frazier Lea McKellar Gore Sr. Brock III Sasser Frist Corker Blackburn
Class 2	Blount J. Anderson Cocke Smith Whiteside Campbell Wharton Williams A. Jackson White A. Anderson Jarnagin Bell Nicholson Fowler Cooper Harris Turley Carmack Taylor Sanders Webb Shields Tyson Brock I Hull Bachman Berry Stewart Kefauver Walters Bass Baker Gore Jr. Mathews Thompson Alexander Hagerty

Tennessee's delegation(s) to the 63rd–68th United States Congresses (ordered by seniority)

63rd	Senate: ▌L. Lea (D) ▌J. Shields (D)	House: ▌J. Moon (D) ▌T. Sims (D) ▌L. Padgett (D) ▌F. Garrett (D) ▌W. Houston (D) ▌C. Hull (D) ▌J. Byrns (D) ▌R. Austin (R) ▌S. Sells (R) ▌K. McKellar (D)
64th	Senate: ▌L. Lea (D) ▌J. Shields (D)	House: ▌J. Moon (D) ▌T. Sims (D) ▌L. Padgett (D) ▌F. Garrett (D) ▌W. Houston (D) ▌C. Hull (D) ▌J. Byrns (D) ▌R. Austin (R) ▌S. Sells (R) ▌K. McKellar (D)
65th	Senate: ▌J. Shields (D) ▌K. McKellar (D)	House: ▌J. Moon (D) ▌T. Sims (D) ▌L. Padgett (D) ▌F. Garrett (D) ▌W. Houston (D) ▌C. Hull (D) ▌J. Byrns (D) ▌R. Austin (R) ▌S. Sells (R) ▌H. Fisher (D)
66th	Senate: ▌J. Shields (D) ▌K. McKellar (D)	House: ▌J. Moon (D) ▌T. Sims (D) ▌L. Padgett (D) ▌F. Garrett (D) ▌C. Hull (D) ▌J. Byrns (D) ▌S. Sells (R) ▌H. Fisher (D) ▌E. Davis (D) ▌J. W. Taylor (R)
67th	Senate: ▌J. Shields (D) ▌K. McKellar (D)	House: ▌L. Padgett (D) ▌F. Garrett (D) ▌J. Byrns (D) ▌H. Fisher (D) ▌E. Davis (D) ▌J. W. Taylor (R) ▌J. Brown (R) ▌W. Clouse (R) ▌B. C. Reece (R) ▌L. Scott (R) ▌C. Turner (D)
68th	Senate: ▌J. Shields (D) ▌K. McKellar (D)	House: ▌F. Garrett (D) ▌J. Byrns (D) ▌H. Fisher (D) ▌E. Davis (D) ▌J. W. Taylor (R) ▌B. C. Reece (R) ▌G. Browning (D) ▌C. Hull (D) ▌S. McReynolds (D) ▌W. Salmon (D)

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