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The people listed below were born in, residents of, or otherwise closely associated with the city of Kingsport, Tennessee. Pages in category "People from Kingsport, Tennessee" The following 57 pages are in this category, out of 57 total.
In 1969, following the death of Tennessee Bishop A. B. McEwen Sr., a rift began in the Patterson family. Many pastors in western Tennessee wanted Patterson’s father to return from Detroit to full-time service in Memphis as the bishop of West Tennessee. Presiding Bishop J. O. Patterson refused, using the Catholic Church as his example
Pope John Paul II was the subject of three premature obituaries.. A prematurely reported obituary is an obituary of someone who was still alive at the time of publication. . Examples include that of inventor and philanthropist Alfred Nobel, whose premature obituary condemning him as a "merchant of death" for creating military explosives may have prompted him to create the Nobel Prize; [1 ...
Willie Blount (1768–1835), early governor of Tennessee Julian Bond (1940–2015), activist, politician; born in Nashville Alexander Bonnyman Jr. (1910–1943), decorated U.S. Marine; raised in Knoxville
Former Alabama Gov. John Patterson, who entered politics as a reformer after his father’s assassination but was criticized for failing to protect the Freedom Riders from angry white mobs, has died.
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In the 1920s, Rufus L. Patterson Jr. and his college classmate and fraternity brother, John Motley Morehead III (who was also a first cousin of his wife), [18] funded the $100,000 construction cost of the Morehead-Patterson Bell Tower, a bell tower designed by McKim, Mead & White and located on the campus of The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Morrison City is an unincorporated community in Sullivan County, Tennessee, United States. Named for pioneer settler Peter Morison, Morrison City developed with the industrial growth of nearby Kingsport, Tennessee, in the 1930s. Peter Morison, his wife Mary Kirkpatrick Morison, and other relatives, are buried in the Morrison Chapel Cemetery, in ...