Frank Hoyt Gailor

Background

Gailor, Frank Hoyt was born on May 9, 1892 in Sewanee, Tennessee, United States. Son of Thomas Frank and Ellen Douglas (Cunningham) Gailor.

Education

Student Racine (Wisconsin) College, 1906-1908. Bachelor of Arts, University of the South, Sewanee, Tennessee, 1912, Doctor of Civil Law, 1928. Student Columbia University, 1912-1913.

Master of Arts (Rhodes Scholar), New College, University of Oxford, England, 1916.

Career

Admitted to bar, Tennessee, 1919. Member Tennessee Legislature, house of representatives, 1921, senate, 1923. County trustee Shelby County, 1924-1936, county attorney, 1936-1941.

Circuit judge, 1941-1942. Associate justice Supreme Court of Tennessee, since 1942.

Membership

Served as Second lieutenant, Royal Garrison Artillery, B.E.F., 1916-1918. Member Alpha Tau Omega, American Legion. Club: University (Memphis, Tennessee).

Connections

Married Mary Louise Pennel, August 9, 1922. Children: Mary Ann, Ellen Douglas, Nancy Pennel.

Father:

Thomas Frank Gailor

Mother:

Ellen Douglas (Cunningham) Gailor

Spouse:

Mary Louise Pennel

child:

Ellen Douglas Gailor

child:

Mary Ann Gailor

child:

Nancy Pennel Gailor