William Charles Salmon
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William Charles Salmon was an American politician and a member of the United States House of Representatives for the 7th congressional district of Tennessee. He was born on April 3, 1868 near Paris, Tennessee in Henry County. He attended the public schools, Edgewood Normal School, and Valparaiso University at Valparaiso, Indiana. He graduated in law from Cumberland University at Lebanon, Tennessee in 1897. He was admitted to the bar the same year, and he commenced practice in Columbia, Tennessee in Maury County.
William Salmon taught in public and private schools for six years and also engaged in agricultural pursuits. He served as special circuit judge of the eleventh judicial circuit of Tennessee in 1908. He was president of the Columbia Board of Education from 1908 to 1922. He commanded an Artillery battery during World War I. He was elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-eighth Congress, serving from March 4, 1923 to March 3, 1925. He was interred in Rose Hill Cemetery in Columbia, Tennessee.
This article incorporates facts obtained from the public domain Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.
