Oliver Perry Temple

Oliver Perry Temple
Born
Oliver Perry Temple

(1820-01-27)January 27, 1820
DiedNovember 2, 1907(1907-11-02) (aged 87)
Resting placeOld Gray Cemetery[1]
Knoxville, Tennessee, U.S.
Alma materWashington College[2]
OccupationAttorney
Notable workThe Covenanter, the Cavalier, and the Puritan (1897)
East Tennessee and the Civil War (1899)
Notable Men of Tennessee (1912)
Political partyWhig
Constitutional Union
Republican
SpouseScotia Caledonia Hume[2]
ChildrenMary Boyce Temple[2]
Parent(s)James and Mary Craig Temple[2]

Oliver Perry Temple (January 27, 1820 – November 2, 1907) was an American attorney, author, judge, and economic promoter active primarily in East Tennessee in the latter half of the 19th century.[2] During the months leading up to the Civil War, Temple played a pivotal role in organizing East Tennessee's Unionists. In June 1861, he drafted the final resolutions of the pro-Union East Tennessee Convention, and spent much of the first half of the war providing legal defense for Unionists who had been charged with treason by Confederate authorities.[3]

After the war, Temple promoted agricultural and industrial development in East Tennessee, most notably by assisting in the development of the Rugby Colony,[4] and in later years wrote several books on the history of East Tennessee.[5]

  1. ^ The Historic Mary Boyce Temple House. Retrieved: 31 October 2010.
  2. ^ a b c d e Mary Rothrock, The French Broad-Holston Country: A History of Knox County, Tennessee (Knoxville, Tenn.: East Tennessee Historical Society, 1972), pp. 495-497.
  3. ^ Oliver P. Temple, East Tennessee and the Civil War (Johnson City, Tenn.: Overmountain Press, 1995), pp. 156-157, 172-173, 194-197, 234-235, 340, 349, 400, 474.
  4. ^ Cite error: The named reference bailey was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  5. ^ Kathleen Zebley, Oliver Perry Temple. Tennessee Encyclopedia of History and Culture, 2009. Retrieved: 10 August 2011.