Thomas F. Gailor

Bishop Thomas F. Gailor, c. 1904

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 1898-1935.

Career

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.[1]

Family

In 1923, his daughter, Ellen Douglas Gailor, married Richard Folsom Cleveland, son of former President Grover Cleveland.[2][3][4]

References

  1. ↑ Official Report of the Proceedings of the Democratic National Convention, published by the Democratic National Committee (1924), p. 45
  2. ↑ "Richard F. Cleveland, Son of Ex-President, To Wed Miss Gailor, Daughter of Bishop," New York Times, February 8, 1923.
  3. ↑ "Richard F. Cleveland, Son of President" (obituary), Washington Post, January 11, 1974.
  4. ↑ "Maryanne Rachel Fink is Bride" (listing bridegroom as great-grandson of President Cleveland and Bishop Gailor), New York Times, June 22, 1980.

See also

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