George Blackmore Guild (1834-1917) was an American Democratic politician. He served as the

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from 1891 to 1895.

Biography

He was born April 8, 1834, in

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. He attended the

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for two years and transferred to

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, where he graduated as a valedictorian.William Waller, ''Nashville in the 1890s'', Nashville, Tennessee: Vanderbilt University Press, 1970, p. 8

/ref> He was a member of the

Beta Theta Pi Beta Theta Pi (), commonly known as Beta, is a North American social fraternity that was founded in 1839 at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. One of North America's oldest fraternities, as of 2022 it consists of 144 active chapters in the Unite ...

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.''The Beta Theta Pi'', Volume 23, 1895
/ref> He fought in the

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during the

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of 1861–1865.''The Journal of East Tennessee History'', issue 76, 2005, p. 113 He served as Mayor of Nashville from 1891 to 1895, being elected in 1891 and reelected in 1893.Nashville Library
He was married on March 5, 1861, to Georgia Thompson. They had five children, Josephus Conn (1862–1907), William Thompson (1866-1895), Walter Keeble (1868-1872), George Mullins, and Maria (Westbrook) (1873–1954). He died in

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on April 21, 1917, and was buried at Mount Olivet Cemetery in Nashville.

References

1834 births 1917 deaths People from Gallatin, Tennessee Tennessee Democrats Mayors of Nashville, Tennessee Confederate States Army soldiers People of Tennessee in the American Civil War Cumberland University alumni Beta Theta Pi 19th-century American politicians University of Alabama alumni Burials at Mount Olivet Cemetery (Nashville) {{Tennessee-mayor-stub