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built. In 1860 Judge Deaderick was district elector for the first district on the Bell and Everett ticket. When the war between the States broke out, he was an active sympa thizer with the cause of the Confederacy. Too old for active service himself, he gave hissons to fight in his stead. In 1870 the position he held in the bar of East Tennessee was so respectable that he was elected Su preme Judge over several competitors. He was then fifty-eight years old. On the death of Chief-Justice Nicholson, in 1876, he was made Chief-Justice. He was re-elected in 1878 for another term of eight years. He was continued as Chief-Justice. On the expiration of his term in 1886, he was not a candidate for re-election. He retired to his home at Jonesboro', where he died Oct. 8, 1890. Judge Deaderick was an eminently con servative man. Changes and innovations were distasteful to him. He did not deliver .many written opinions; but when he did write, it was in a clear direct style. He was to an unusual degree impervious to all con siderations, except those shown in the rec ord, which might influence a judge in the decision of a case. In the various cases' having a political aspect in the decision of which he participated, he never leaned to the side where his political preferences were, but he decided the controversy from a strictly, dispassionate point of view. As a presiding officer, his patience was his fault. He was courtesy itself to the lawyers appearing at the bar of the court, and his kindliness would not permit him to say to a lawyer that his argument was giving the court no light. Peter Turney, sometime Chief-Justice and now Governor of Tennessee, was born in Jasper,. Marion County, Tenn., Sept. 22, 1827. He is of English descent; and his Saxon blood is shown in his light hair with blue eyes, and his magnificent physique, he standing six feet three inches high, perfectly proportioned. When yet an infant, his father, Hopkins L. Turney, a leading lawyer at Jasper, removed to Winchester, the

county-seat of the neighboring county of Franklin, at the solicitation of Judge Nathan Green, who had just been elected chancellor, to take the practice he was about to relin quish. Governor Turney has continued to reside at Winchester since February, 1828. He was educated in the schools there, and in a private school at Nashville. He began to read law under his father. His father being elected United States Senator, he continued his studies under Major Venable of Win chester, and was licensed to practise in 1848He opened an office at Winchester, and con tinued to practise there until 1861. He was, in 1860, an alternate elector on the Breckinridge ticket. He made a thorough canvass of the district. After the election of Lincoln as President, on the fourth Monday in November, the day the circuit court con vened at Winchester, he made a speech to the large crowd gathered in the town, advo cating the immediate secession of the State. He was the first man in the State to publicly avow that the time for decisive action had come. On Feb. 9, 1861, there was an elec tion held for delegates to a convention to pass an ordinance of secession. Governor Turney was a candidate from his county favoring secession, and carried the county overwhelmingly. Secession, however, was beaten in the general result by a. vote of 89,000 against, to 25,000 for. When the result of the election became known, the citizens of Franklin County, so as to be in the Confederacy, held a mass-meeting and adopted an ordinance, withdrawing their county from the territory of Tennessee, and attaching it to Alabama, the county being on the border. Governor Turney, believing war inevitable, then enrolled a company of men, and was elected their captain. He went to Montgomery to tender the services of his company to the Confederacy. He was asked to raise a regiment, and on his return he began the enlistment of it. The enlist ment was done in a secret way, the presiding judge of the circuit threatening Governor Turney with indictment for treason. But