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Hugh Barton Lindsay (November 3, 1856 – July 21, 1944) was an American attorney, jurist and politician in Tennessee, who was appointed as United States Attorney for the Eastern District, serving from 1889 to 1893, and judge of Tennessee's Second Chancery District from 1894 to 1899. He was the Republican nominee for Governor of Tennessee in 1918, losing to Albert H. Roberts, as well as the Republican nominee for United States Senator in 1924, losing to Lawrence Tyson. As an attorney, Lindsay helped ALCOA become established as an industry in the region in the 1910s. He also helped launch the movement in the 1920s to create and preserve Great Smoky Mountains National Park.〔 ==Early life and career== Lindsay was born near Coal Creek, Tennessee (now Lake City), one of five children of farmers Cornelius Lindsay and Valentine (Bowling) Lindsay.〔Albert Osborne, ''(Makers of America: Biographies of Leading Men of Thought and Action )'', Vol. 3 (Washington, D.C.: B.F. Johnson, 1917), pp. 354-362.〕 He attended local schools before graduating from Franklin Academy in Jacksboro in 1880. He was admitted to the bar that same year, having read law with prominent Knoxville attorney Oliver Perry Temple. He moved to Huntsville, Tennessee, to practice law.〔 In 1881, Lindsay was appointed to a commission to investigate moonshining in the Scott County area.〔 He was elected attorney general (district attorney) for the state's 16th Judicial District in 1884, and successfully ran for Scott County's seat in the Tennessee House of Representatives in 1886, serving a single term.〔 Lindsay was an elector for Benjamin Harrison in the presidential election of 1888.〔 In 1889, Lindsay was appointed U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Tennessee by President Harrison, and moved to the district's headquarters in Knoxville.〔 During his tenure, Lindsay prosecuted numerous moonshining cases, including 600 cases in 1891 alone. He also won successful convictions in a number of pension fraud cases, including that of Greeneville pension agent, W.R. Marshall, who was convicted of forging a Union Army pension.〔Stephen Cresswell, ''(Mormons and Cowboys, Moonshiners and Klansmen: Law Enforcement in the South and West, 1870–1893 )'' (University of Alabama Press, 2002), p. 143.〕 Lindsay served as U.S. attorney until 1893, when Harrison's successor, Grover Cleveland, appointed James Bible to the position. Following his term as U.S. Attorney, Lindsay was elected chancellor (judge) of Tennessee's Second Chancery District.〔 During his term, he ruled on a variety of cases, ranging from a dispute over the rights of academies to summarily fire teachers, to a case involving back taxes owed by the improvement company working to establish Harriman, Tennessee. One case, ''Guntert v. Guntert'', involved an alcoholic who had deeded personal property to his sister for fear of squandering it, and then sued to get it back when she refused to return it.〔''(The Southwestern Reporter )'', Vol. 37 (1897), pp. 277, 396, 890.〕 Another, ''Citizens Railway Co. v. Africa, et al.'', was an effort to resolve the lengthy dispute between Knoxville's two streetcar companies, which had culminated in a riot known as the Battle of Depot Street in 1897.〔''(The Southwestern Reporter )'', Vol. 85 (1898), p. 485.〕 Lindsay served as judge until 1899, when the state legislature abolished his district.〔John Wooldridge, George Mellen, William Rule (ed.), ''Standard History of Knoxville, Tennessee'' (Chicago: Lewis Publishing Company, 1900; reprinted by Kessinger Books, 2010), p. 475.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Hugh B. Lindsay」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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