Thomas Frank Gailor

Thomas Frank Gailor (September 17, 1856 – October 7, 1935) was the third bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Tennessee in the Episcopal Church and served from 1898 to 1935.

Gailor graduated from Racine College. He served as the eighth chancellor of the University of the South in Sewanee, Tennessee, from June 23, 1908, until his death. In 1916 Gailor was elected president of the House of Bishops, and at the 1919 General Convention he was elected president of the National Council of the Episcopal Church. He served in this position until 1925, when the Episcopal Church's first elected presiding bishop began his six-year term.

In 1921 he received an honorary degree in Doctor of Laws from Oglethorpe University.

On June 25, 1924, he offered the invocation at the opening of the second day of the 1924 Democratic National Convention.

In 1923, his daughter, Ellen Douglas Gailor, married Richard Folsom Cleveland, son of former President Grover Cleveland.

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