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GAINES, John Wesley, a Representative from Tennessee; born in Wrencoe, near Nashville,
Davidson County, Tenn., August 24, 1860; attended private and public schools,
in which he also taught; studied law at home; studied medicine, and was
graduated from the University of Nashville and from Vanderbilt University,
Nashville, Tenn., in 1882; never practiced medicine, but the day after
graduation resumed the study of law; was admitted to the bar in 1884 and
commenced practice in Nashville in 1885; elected as a Democrat to the
Fifty-fifth and to the five succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1897-March 3,
1909); unsuccessful for reelection in 1908 to the Sixty-first Congress;
practiced law in Nashville, Tenn., where he died July 4, 1926; interment in
Mount Olivet Cemetery.
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