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Luke Lea (April 12, 1879 – November 18, 1945) was an American attorney, politician and newspaper publisher. A Democrat, he was most notable for his service as a United States Senator from Tennessee from 1911 to 1917. Lea was the longtime publisher of The Tennessean newspaper in Nashville, and a United States Army veteran of World War I.
Oct 8, 2017 · 4 minutes to read. A key figure in the reform and prohibition movements and a major player in the early twentieth-century Democratic Party, Luke Lea was prominent in Tennessee history during the early twentieth century. A descendant of the pioneer Overton and Cocke families, Lea was the son of Ella Cocke and Overton Lea.
- Mary Louise Tidwell
Nov 28, 2021 · Luke Lea: A Biographical Sketch. by Doris Boyce. Luke Lea was born in Nashville in 1879. His grandmother was a descendant of Judge John Overton, law partner of Andrew Jackson. His grandfather, John McCormack Lea, was mayor of Nashville in 1849. His father, Overton Lea, was an attorney.
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Mar 9, 2024 · Luke Lea and the Tennesseans who tried to kidnap the Kaiser. Robert Lanier March 9, 2024. “I’d have given a year’s pay to have been able to have taken Lea’s trip into Holland and to have entered the castle of Count Bentinck without invitation.” ~General Pershing, in 1919. By Robert A. Lanier.
By Ray Hill. The pages of Tennessee’s history is littered with colorful characters, but the life of Luke Lea is one right out of a novel; handsome, urbane, highly intelligent and successful, Lea climbed to the heights of financial and political accomplishment. Lea would become one of the first publishing magnates and would be elected to the ...
By Robert Hunt. Over the Christmas and New Year’s holidays of 1918 1919, –. Luke Lea, colonel of the Tennessee-raised 114th Field Artillery, tried to capture Wilhelm II, the former German kaiser, and take him to Paris as World War I’s prize criminal.
Luke Lea was an American attorney, politician and newspaper publisher. A Democrat, he was most notable for his service as a United States Senator from Tennessee from 1911 to 1917. Lea was the longtime publisher of The Tennessean newspaper in Nashville, and a United States Army veteran of World War I.
