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
The Tennessee House of Representatives is the lower house of the Tennessee General Assembly, the state legislature of the U.S. state of Tennessee.
Constitutional requirements
According to the state constitution of 1870, this body is to consis ...
in the 1870s,
and unsuccessfully ran for Governor three times.
[Arthur St. Clair Colyar]
by James B. Jones, Jr; published March 1, 2018, by the Tennessee Historical Society
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
The Methodist Episcopal Church, South (MEC, S; also Methodist Episcopal Church South) was the American Methodist denomination resulting from the 19th-century split over the issue of slavery in the Methodist Episcopal Church (MEC). Disagreement ...
.
He died on December 13, 1907, in Nashville, Tennessee.
He was buried at the
Mount Olivet Cemetery.
His niece was editor
Viola Roseboro'.
[Viola Roseboro': A Prototype for Cather's "My Mortal Enemy"]
by Merrill M. Skaggs, in ''Mississippi Quarterly
The ''Mississippi Quarterly: The Journal of Southern Cultures'' is a peer-reviewed scholarly journal that mainly covers Southern history and literature. Originally entitled ''Social Sciences Bulletin'', it was established in 1948 by John K. Bette ...
''; Winter 2000-2001, vol. 54, no. 1, pp. 5-21
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References
1818 births
1907 deaths
Members of the Confederate House of Representatives from Tennessee
19th-century American politicians
People from Washington County, Tennessee
Tennessee Democrats
Tennessee lawyers
Businesspeople from Tennessee
People from Franklin County, Tennessee
Politicians from Nashville, Tennessee
19th-century American businesspeople
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