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Author: Will T. Hale

   ABRAM MARTIN TILLMAN. The present United States district attorney for the

Middle Tennessee district, Abram Martin Tillman, is one of the ablest

representatives of the bar of the state and has been a member of the Federal and

State bars for the last twenty-five years.



   Mr. Tillman is a native of Bedford county, this state, where he was born on

September 8, 1863, a son of Lewis and Mary Catherine (Davidson) Tillman. The

family is of English and Scotch-Irish descent.



   Near Shelbyville, Tennessee, where he spent most of his childhood, Mr.

Tillman attended the private and public schools and was later graduated from the

Winchester Normal, Winchester, Tennessee. He attended the law department of the

Columbian, now the George Washington University, at Washington, D. C., from

which he graduated in 1886, taking both graduate and post graduate courses, and

was admitted to the Tennessee bar at Shelbyville the same year. He soon acquired

a reputation for careful and successful handling of cases, and has always

enjoyed a high place in his profession. In 1887 he formed a partnership with his

brother George N. Tillman, at Nashville, and such partnership continued until in

1898 when President McKinley appointed him for his first term as United States

district attorney. He was reappointed by President Roosevelt in 1902 and 1906

and in 1910 by President Taft. His record has been an able one, and he has

successfully managed many very important cases during his incumbency of said
office.



   Mr. Tillman is a member of the Hermitage Club, and of the Golf and County

Club. He has been secretary and a member of the board of trustees for the

Columbia Military Academy since its establishment. Mr. Tillman was married on

November 28, 1894, to Miss Sarah Clayton Ford, of Nashville, a daughter of Ben

C. and Stella (Pope) Ford. Mr. and Mrs. Tillman have two daughters, viz: Miss

Louise C. and Kathleen. In politics, Mr. Tillman has always been a Republican.

He is at the head of the law firm of Tillman & McCall of Nashville, Tennessee.



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A history of Tennessee and Tennesseans : the leaders and representative men in

commerce, industry and modern activities

by Will T. Hale

Chicago:  Lewis Pub. Co.,  1913



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