Napier, James Carroll, 1845-1940

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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.

From the description of James Carroll Napier papers, 1848-1939. (Fisk University). WorldCat record id: 70972592

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referencedIn McKenzie, Fayette Avery, b. 1872. Fayette Avery McKenzie papers, 1915-1926. John Hope and Aurelia E. Franklin Library. Special Collections & Archives
creatorOf Napier, James Carroll, 1854-1940. James Carroll Napier papers, 1848-1939. John Hope and Aurelia E. Franklin Library. Special Collections & Archives
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correspondedWith McKenzie, Fayette Avery, b. 1872. person
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Birth 1845

Death 1940

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