Edward Ward Carmack
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United States Senator from Tennessee |
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In office March 4, 1901 – March 4, 1907 |
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| Preceded by | Thomas B. Turley |
| Succeeded by | Robert L. Taylor |
| Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Tennessee's 10th district |
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In office March 4, 1897 – March 3, 1901 |
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| Preceded by | Josiah Patterson |
| Succeeded by | Malcolm R. Patterson |
| Member of the Tennessee House of Representatives | |
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In office 1884 |
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November 5, 1858 Castalian Springs, Tennessee |
| Died | November 9, 1908 (aged 50) Nashville, Tennessee |
| Political party | Democratic |
Edward Ward Carmack (November 5, 1858 – November 9, 1908) was an attorney, newspaperman, and political figure who served as a U.S. Senator from Tennessee from 1901 to 1907.
Following his political service, and after an unsuccessful run for Governor of Tennessee, he became editor of the one-year-old Nashville Tennessean. He was shot to death on November 9, 1908 over a feud precipitated by his editorial comments in the paper.
Carmack was born in Sumner County, Tennessee. He attended The Webb School, then at Culleoka, Tennessee. He studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1878 and began practicing in Columbia, Tennessee. He served as Columbia city attorney in 1881, and was elected to the Tennessee House of Representatives in 1884.
Carmack joined the staff of the Nashville Democrat in 1889, later becoming editor-in-chief of the Nashville American when the two papers merged. He later (1892) served as editor of the Memphis Commercial, now The Commercial Appeal.
Throughout his career, Carmack was known to use his newspapers to attack rivals. During Carmack's tenure with the Appeal, his editorials began an interesting dialogue with another famous Tennessee journalist, Ida B. Wells. Wells, known as the "Mother of the Civil Rights Movement", was also not one to withhold her opinions and spoke out about the plight of African-Americans in Post-Reconstruction era in the South. Memphis in the 1890s was a hotbed of racial tension, and lynching crimes were commonplace. Wells launched an anti-lynching campaign in her newspaper, the Free Speech.
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