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Zachary D. Massey
American politician

Zachary D. Massey

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American politician
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Gender
Male
Place of birth
Marshall, Madison County, North Carolina, U.S.A.
Place of death
Sevierville, Sevier County, Tennessee, U.S.A.
Age
58 years
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Biography

Zachary David Massey (November 14, 1864 – July 13, 1923) was an American politician that represented the 1st congressional district of Tennessee in the United States House of Representatives.

Biography

Massey was born on November 14, 1864 in Marshall, North Carolina son of Robert Hardy and Tempa Arena Brown Massey. He attended the public schools.

Career

Massey taught in the public schools of Marshall from 1882 to 1886. He married Sally Josephine Mullendore on November 25, 1886, and they had six children, Beulah, Roy, Blanche, Constance, Juanita, and Robert. He studied medicine in the Louisville (Kentucky) Medical College and commenced the practice of his profession in Wears Valley, Tennessee in 1889. He moved to Sevierville, Tennessee in Sevier County in 1890.

During the Spanish–American War, Massey served as an assistant surgeon with The Sixth Regiment, United States Volunteer Infantry, also known as the "Sixth Immunes." The unit served its term of service in the continental U.S. and in Puerto Rico from 1898 to 1899.

After Massey was the postmaster of Sevierville from 1899 to 1904; he then was a member of the Tennessee Senate from 1904 to 1906.

Massey was elected as a Republican to the Sixty-first Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Walter P. Brownlow. He served from November 8, 1910 to March 3, 1911, but he was not a candidate for renomination in 1910. He resumed the practice of medicine and also engaged in the real estate business.

Death

On July 13, 1923, Massey died in Sevierville, Tennessee. He is interred at Shiloh Cemetery.

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