John Meredith Bass

For other people named John Bass, see John Bass (disambiguation).
John Meredith Bass
Born January 19, 1804
Died 1878
Resting place Mount Olivet Cemetery
Residence Beersheba Springs, Tennessee
Nationality American
Occupation Banker
Planter
Politician
Spouse(s) Malvina Grundy
Parent(s) Peter Bass
Relatives Felix Grundy (father-in-law)

John Meredith Bass (1804–1878) was an American banker, planter and Whig politician.[1][2][3] He served as the Mayor of Nashville, Tennessee from 1833 to 1834, and again in 1869.[1][2]

Biography

Early life

He was born on January 19, 1804.[1] His father was Peter Bass.[1][4]

Career

He was the President of the Union Bank of Tennessee.[3][5] He also owned plantations in Louisiana and Arkansas.[3] As a Mayor of Nashville in 1833-34 and 1869, he was a Unionist/Whig.[6]

Personal life

On January 7, 1829, he married Malvina Grundy, daughter of Senator Felix Grundy, after she eloped at the age of eighteen.[3][4][7] He was a personal friend of slave trader John Armfield.[2] Like him, he owned a cottage in Beersheba Springs, Tennessee.[2] He died in 1878, and he is buried with his wife in the Mount Olivet Cemetery in Nashville.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 Friends of Metropolitan Archives of Nashville and Davidson County, TN
  2. 1 2 3 4 Robert S. Brandt, Touring Middle Tennessee Backroads, John F. Blair Publisher, 1995, p. 383
  3. 1 2 3 4 Publications, Issues 51-55, East Tennessee Historical Society, 1983
  4. 1 2 John Roderick Heller, Democracy's Lawyer: Felix Grundy of the Old Southwest, Louisiana State University Press, 2010, p. 173
  5. ↑ Report from the President and Cashier of the Union Bank of Tennessee, to the Tennessee Legislature, November 15, 1843
  6. ↑ Nashville Public Library: Mayors of Nashville, Tennessee
  7. ↑ Alfred Leland Crabb, Peabody and Alfred Leland Crabb: The story of Peabody as reflected in selected writings of Alfred Leland Crabb, Williams Press, 1977, p. 186
Political offices
Preceded by
William Armstrong		 Mayor of Nashville, Tennessee
1833–1834 		Succeeded by
John Patton Erwin
Preceded by
Augustus E. Alden		 Mayor of Nashville, Tennessee
1869–1869 		Succeeded by
Kindred Jenkins Morris


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