Background
Pigford, Clarence E. was born on November 11, 1873 in Lauderdale County, Mississippi, United States. Son of James Farrier and Martha Jane (Delk) Pigford.
Pigford, Clarence E. was born on November 11, 1873 in Lauderdale County, Mississippi, United States. Son of James Farrier and Martha Jane (Delk) Pigford.
Bachelor of Arts, Union University, Jackson, Tennessee, 1893. Honorary Doctor of Laws, 1943. Bachelor of Laws, Cumberland University, Lebanon, Tennessee, 1896.
Admitted to Tennessee bar, 1896, and since practiced in Jackson. City attorney, 1889-1901. Special judge, Tennessee Court of Appeals.
President Sun Publishing Company (Jackson Sun), Jackson Transportation Corporation.
Vice president, Budde & Weiss Manufacturing Company, Model Mill Company. Director and attorney, First National Bank, Jackson, Tennessee Trustee of George Peabody College for Teachers, Nashville, Tennessee.
Director Southwestern College of the Mississippi Valley, Memphis, Tennessee.
Member Jackson Bar Association (past president), Tennessee Bar Association, American Bar Association, Tennessee History Commission, State Planning Commission, Sigma Alpha Epsilon. Elk.; Club: Jackson Golf and Country. Successfully attacked as discriminatory, constitutionality of Tennessee Statute before Supreme Court of the United States resulting in one of the few reversals (12th) by that Court of Supreme Court of Tennessee.
Married Sally Bransford Person, November 27, 1907.