Napier, James Carroll, 1845-1940

Page, Tennessee State Senate (1857); County Claims Commission for Davidson Co., Tenn. (1868); clerk, Office of the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands and clerk, Office of the Sixth Auditor of the U.S. Treasury (1870); admitted to the bar (1872); Nashville City Councilman (1878-1884); Tennessee Republican candidate for U.S. House (1898); member, Republican State Executive Committee (1898-ca. 1918); active member, National Negro Businessmen's League (1900); volunteer chief cashier and advisor, One Cent Savings Bank (later, Citizens Savings and Trust Co.) (1903-1930s); lecturer on Medical Jurisprudence, Meharry Medical College (1908-1939); member and later, vice chair, Board of Trustees, Anna T. Jeanes Foundation and active in the Negro Rural School Fund; Register of the U.S. Treasury (1911-1913); spoke throughout the South, acting as a liaison between President Taft and the Negro electorate (1911); toured with Booker T. Washington to promote the founding of new chapters of the National Negro Businessmen's League (1912); President of the Board of Trade, Nashville, Tenn. (1914); President, National Negro Businessmen's League (1916); chair, Nashville Community Chest's Colored Division (1918-1932); and trustee, Fisk University, Meharry Medical College and Walden College.