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James Dixon Black (September 24, 1849 – August 5,〔Hay, p. 151; some sources give August 4.〕 1938) was the 39th Governor of Kentucky, serving for seven months in 1919. He ascended to the office when Governor Augustus O. Stanley was elected to the U.S. Senate. Black graduated from Tusculum College in 1872 and taught school while studying law. He was admitted to the bar in 1874 and opened his legal practice in Barbourville, Kentucky. Eventually, his son, Pitzer Dixon, and his son-in-law, Hiram H. Owens, became partners in his practice, called Black, Black and Owens. Deeply interested in education, he served as superintendent of the Knox County public schools for two years, and was instrumental in the founding of Union College in Barbourville. He served as president of the college from 1910 to 1912. Black was chosen as the Democratic nominee for lieutenant governor in 1915, despite having only meager previous political experience. He was elected on a ticket with Augustus O. Stanley and was elevated to governor when Stanley resigned to take a seat in the U.S. Senate. Much of his seven months as governor were spent on his re-election campaign. He was unable to satisfactorily answer charges of corruption made against the Stanley administration by his opponent, Edwin P. Morrow. Morrow won the election by more than 40,000 votes. Black returned to his legal practice in Barbourville and served as president of a bank founded by his older brother. He was campaign manager for Alben Barkley's senatorial campaign when he died of pneumonia on August 5, 1938. ==Early life and family== James Dixon Black was born on September 24, 1849 nine miles from Barbourville on Richland Creek in Knox County, Kentucky.〔Hay, p. 149.〕 He was the youngest of twelve children born to John Craig and Clarissa "Cassie" (Jones) Black.〔Kerr, p. 3〕 Black's older brother, Isaac Jones Black (August 5, 1828 - October 22, 1866), was captain of the 49th Kentucky Mounted Infantry in the Union Army during the Civil War.〔Johnson, p. 1552〕 Black was educated in the rural and subscription schools in and around Barbourville.〔 In 1872, he graduated from Tusculum College near Greeneville, Tennessee with a Bachelor of Arts degree.〔 After college, Black returned to Knox County where he taught in the public schools for two years.〔Harrison in ''The Kentucky Encyclopedia'', p. 83〕 Concurrently, he studied law, and was admitted to the bar in August 1874.〔 He opened his legal practice in Barbourville.〔"Kentucky Governor James Dixon Black"〕 Black married Mary Jeanette "Nettie" Pitzer on December 2, 1875 in Barbourville.〔Johnson, p. 1553〕 The couple had three children: Pitzer Dixon, Gertrude Dawn, and Georgia Clarice. All were members of the Methodist Episcopal Church.〔 All three children graduated from what is now Centre College in Danville, Kentucky. Pitzer then went on to study law at the University of Virginia.〔Kerr, p. 4〕 After being admitted to the bar, he became a partner in his father's law firm.〔 Georgia Black married Hiram Hercules Owens, who also became a partner in the Barbourville firm of Black, Black, and Owens.〔 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「James D. Black」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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