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Life and career. Ben West Jr. was born on March 19, 1941, in Nashville, Tennessee. [1] [2] His father, Ben West, served as mayor of Nashville and as a member of the Tennessee Senate. [3] West Jr. attended Sewanee Military Academy. [4] He was vice president of the First American National Bank between 1960 and 1984, [5] and assumed the same role ...
Ben West. Raphael Benjamin West (March 31, 1911 – November 20, 1974) was an American attorney and politician who served as mayor of Nashville from 1951 to 1963, and as a Tennessee state senator from 1949 to 1951. While a state senator, he supported a change from at-large to single-member district voting to the Nashville City Council.
The Nashville sit-ins, which lasted from February 13 to May 10, 1960, were part of a protest to end racial segregation at lunch counters in downtown Nashville, Tennessee. The sit-in campaign, coordinated by the Nashville Student Movement and the Nashville Christian Leadership Council, was notable for its early success and its emphasis on ...
Mayors of Metropolitan Nashville. The following is a list of the mayors of Nashville after the consolidation of the municipal government with the government of Davidson County : Image. Mayor. Term. Beverly Briley. 1963–1975. Richard Fulton. 1975–1987.
Freedom Award. Diane Judith Nash (born May 15, 1938) is an American civil rights activist, and a leader and strategist of the student wing of the Civil Rights Movement . Nash's campaigns were among the most successful of the era. Her efforts included the first successful civil rights campaign to integrate lunch counters (Nashville); [1] the ...
Cumberland Law School. Clifton Beverly Briley (January 11, 1914 – September 14, 1980) was an American attorney and politician, the first mayor of the newly consolidated metropolitan government of Nashville and Davidson County in Tennessee. Elected to the mayor's position in 1962 as a Democrat, Briley served three terms from 1963 to 1975; he ...
1784 – Nashville established. [2] [3] 1785 – Davidson Academy incorporated. [4] 1789 – Methodist church built. [5] 1796 – Settlement becomes part of the state of Tennessee. 1797 – Tennessee Gazette and Mero District Advertiser newspaper begins publication. [6]
Pages in category "Politicians from Nashville, Tennessee" ... Ben West Jr. John Austin Wharton (died 1838) Edgar Bright Wilson (politician) Y. Jeff Yarbro