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American politician
Arthur St. Clair Colyar
BornJune 23, 1818
Washington County, Tennessee, U.S.
DiedDecember 13, 1907(1907-12-13) (aged 89)
Nashville, Tennessee, U.S.
Resting placeMount Olivet Cemetery
OccupationPolitician
ParentAlexander Colyar

Arthur St. Clair Colyar (June 23, 1818 – December 13, 1907) was an American lawyer, Confederate politician, and newspaper editor.

Early life

Colyar was born on June 23, 1818, in Washington County, Tennessee. His father was Alexander Colyar. He moved to Franklin County, Tennessee, with his parents when he was 12.

Colyar studied the law with Micah Taul.

Career

Colyar was admitted to the bar in 1846. He practised the law in Winchester, Tennessee, until 1861. During the American Civil War, Colyar represented the state in the Second Confederate Congress from 1864 to 1865.

After the war, Colyar resumed his legal practise in Winchester, but he moved to Nashville, Tennessee in 1867. He was a creditor and later president of the Tennessee Coal and Iron Company, which used mainly African-American leased convict labor to produce steel. He served as a member of the Tennessee House of Representatives in the 1870s, and unsuccessfully ran for Governor three times.

Allen & Ginter American Editors trading card series depiction of Colyar

Colyar became the editor of the Nashville American (later known as The Tennessean) in 1880. He subsequently served as the editor of The News, another newspaper based in Nashville, until he became the owner and editor of the American newspaper.

Personal life and death

Colyar was a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South. He died on December 13, 1907, in Nashville, Tennessee. He was buried at the Mount Olivet Cemetery.

His niece was editor Viola Roseboro'.

Further reading

  • McCanless Howell, Sarah (Fall 1968). "The Editorials of Arthur S. Colyar, Nashville Prophet or the New South". Tennessee Historical Quarterly. 27 (3): 262–276. JSTOR 42623026.

References

  1. ^ "Collins-doerrer to Combest". The Political Graveyard. Retrieved September 25, 2016.
  2. ^ Allison, John (1905). Notable Men of Tennessee: Personal and Genealogical, with portraits. Atlanta, Georgia: Southern historical Association. pp. 64–65. OCLC 2561350 – via Internet Archive.
  3. "Ghosts of Lone Rock". Sewanee: The University of the South. Retrieved 2022-09-19.
  4. Arthur St. Clair Colyar, by James B. Jones, Jr; published March 1, 2018, by the Tennessee Historical Society
  5. Viola Roseboro': A Prototype for Cather's "My Mortal Enemy", by Merrill M. Skaggs, in Mississippi Quarterly; Winter 2000-2001, vol. 54, no. 1, pp. 5-21


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