Background
Summerville, James Melvin Smith was born on October 27, 1947 in Dickson, Tennessee, United States. Son of Melvin Wesley and Alice Jane Summerville.
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Educating Black Doctors: A History of Meharry Medical College by James Summerville (2002-07-10)
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The Carmack-Cooper Shooting: Tennessee Politics Turn Violent, November 9, 1908 by James Summerville (1994-07-30)
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Educating Black Doctors: A History of Meharry Medical College
(This is a solid book, often inspiring, and one which wide...)
This is a solid book, often inspiring, and one which widens our understanding of many areas, including medicine, foundations, Southern blacks, and federal-state relations. -Journal of the History of Medicine
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The Carmack-Cooper Shooting: Tennessee Politics Turns Violent, November 9, 1908 by James Summerville (2014-07-29)
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The Carmack-Cooper Shooting: Tennessee Politics Turns Violent, November 9, 1908
(Late on the afternoon of November 9, 1908, five shots ran...)
Late on the afternoon of November 9, 1908, five shots rang out from the corner of Seventh and Union in downtown Nashville. As the echoes faded, former U.S. Senator Edward W. Carmack lay dead and Robin J. Cooper, son of prominent businessman Colonel Duncan B. Cooper, reeled from the impact of a bullet intended for his father. Was it a planned assassination or just an unfortunate incident in an old friendship that politics had turned into bitter enmity? Through extensive research, including a study of actual trial documents and the papers of both Cooper and Carmack, this account explores the events leading up to this deadly encounter and the resulting murder trial that has gone down in history as one of the South's most famous.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0786493860/?tag=2022091-20
The Carmack-Cooper Shooting: Tennessee Politics Turn Violent, November 9, 1908
(On November 9, 1908, five shots rang out near the Tenness...)
On November 9, 1908, five shots rang out near the Tennessee capitol building in Nashville. Two shots came from the pistol of U.S. Senator Edward Ward Carmack; three came from the gun of Robin Cooper, who had leaped in front of his father, Colonel Duncan B. Cooper, Carmack's target. When the shooting was over, Senator Carmack lay dead on the streets. Neither Duncan nor Robin Cooper served time in jail. Colonel Cooper was pardoned by Governor Malcolm Patterson; Robin was acquitted in a retrial. Through trial documents, the papers of Colonel Duncan Cooper and Carmack, and extensive research, the background, political intrigue and consequences of this pivotal event in Tennessee politics are studied.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0786400129/?tag=2022091-20
With Kennedy and Other Stories
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James Melvin Smith Summerville
Edit ProfileEducation
Bachelor, U. Tennessee, 1969; Master of Arts, U. Iowa, 1972; Master of Arts, Vanderbilt University, 1983.
Career
Research analyst, State of Tennessee, Nashville, 1972-1977; assistant to vice chancellor, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, 1977-1982; editor, American Association State and Local History, Nashville, 1983-1988; executive director, Tennessee History Society, Nashville, 1988-1989; editor, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, since 1994. Monument committee member Battle of Nashville, Tennessee History Commission, since 1995.
Achievements
Works
book
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Educating Black Doctors: A History of Meharry Medical College
(This is a solid book, often inspiring, and one which wide...)
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The Carmack-Cooper Shooting: Tennessee Politics Turns Violent, November 9, 1908
(Late on the afternoon of November 9, 1908, five shots ran...)
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The Carmack-Cooper Shooting: Tennessee Politics Turn Violent, November 9, 1908
(On November 9, 1908, five shots rang out near the Tenness...)
- Educating Black Doctors: A History of Meharry Medical College by James Summerville (2002-07-10)
- The Carmack-Cooper Shooting: Tennessee Politics Turn Violent, November 9, 1908 by James Summerville (1994-07-30)
- The Carmack-Cooper Shooting: Tennessee Politics Turns Violent, November 9, 1908 by James Summerville (2014-07-29)
- With Kennedy and Other Stories
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Educating Black Doctors: A History of Meharry Medical College
Membership
Chairman Hillsboro-West End Neighborhood Association, Nashville, 1982-1983, 86-87. Member National Coalition Indiana Scholars, Theodore Roosevelt Association, Association Tennessee History (president since 1990), National Association Scholars.
Connections
Married Linda Molgaard Andersen, October 24, 1986. Children: Laurel Bizaillon, Leigh Bizaillon.
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Republican party