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Memphis Mayors
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| Chief Of Police W.C. Davis Pictured With Mayor E.H. Crump, 1911
Most people would be amazed to learn that Crump was mayor of Memphis for only six years, serving three two-year terms from 1910 to 1916. In fact, he had already begun to build influence in local and state politics by the time he was first elected to that office, and he remained influential until the late 1940s. He also served two terms in Congress and was elected for a final term as mayor in 1939.
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Mayor Paine Inaugurates A New Passenger Train, Presumably With the Manitou's Blessing, January, 1924
Source: Memphis in the Twenties, Memphis-Shelby Co. Public Library
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Mayor Paine "At the Throttle" While Attending Ceremonies for a New Passenger Train, January, 1924
Source: Memphis in the Twenties, Memphis-Shelby Co. Public Library
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Mayor Walter Chandler (left) shakes hands with future mayor Henry Loeb in 1955.
Chandler served from 1940 to 1946 and then again in 1955. Future mayor Wyeth Chandler was his son.
Heny Loeb served from 1960 to 1963, then again from 1968 to 1971. During his second term, he dealt with the Sanitation Strike that led to riots and the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Mayor Wyeth Chandler, 1970s
Wyeth Chandler, the son of former mayor Walter Chandler, served for ten years from 1972 to 1982.
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Submitted by: F.E. "Gene" Pratt : 29 Jul 2008, 00:48
Born in 1934, I played baseball in grammar school.
About 1947, in about the seventh grade, my Little Flower Grammar School
team was playing a game on a diamond at St. Peter's Orphanage, as Little
Flower had no baseball field.
Ed Crump came and visited out little game for a short time, attended by
several of his "people". I don't know that he talked to anybody or did
anything other than come out and watch us little kids.
Over the years, I also watched him attend high school games of various
sorts.
I never talked with him or had any other interactions with him.
Submitted by: Paul Beck : 09 Nov 2009, 10:25
Walter Chandler was on the board of directors of Gailor Hall when it was
incorporated in February, 1941. I have established a website to form an
alumni association of former residents of Gailor Hall/Memphis Boys Town.
If you are a former resident or know of any please visit the site at
http://gailorhall-memphisboystownalumni.org/
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