Edward H. East

Birth Date

1830-10-01

Death Date

1904-11-12

Gender

Race Description

White

Entity Type

Person

Nashville, Davidson County, Tennessee, attorney and politician. Nashville, Tennessee, native. Son of Edward Hyde East and Cecilia Buchanan East. Graduate of Washington Institute in Nashville, Tennessee, in 1850. Graduate of the Law School of Cumberland University in Lebanon, Tennessee, in 1854. Elected member of the Tennessee State Legislature from Davidson County in 1859. Partner with George G. Bradford in Bradford & East Attorneys at Law in 1860. Appointed Secretary of State of Tennessee from 1862 to 1865. Governor of Tennessee (interregnum) from March 4, 1865, to April 5, 1865.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Tennessee, Davidson County, Nashville, p. 227A.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Tennessee, Nashville, Davidson County, p. 380.
Find A Grave, "Edward Hyde East (October 1, 1830-November 12, 1904)," Memorial #8005195, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/8005195 (accessed March 31, 2019).
Nashville City and Business Directory for 1860-1861, vol. V., (Nashville, TN: L. P. Williams & CO., Publishers and Proprietors, 1860), p. 239.
James Welch Patton, Unionism and Reconstruction in Tennessee, 1860-1869(Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 1934), 34, 84, 89.
William S. Speer, Sketches of Prominent Tennesseans, Containing Biographies and Records of Many of the Families Who Have Attained Prominence in Tennessee (Nashville, TN: A.B. Tavel, 1888), 196-199.

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