Cabell R. Berry
Speaker of the Tennessee State Senate
Cabell Rives Berry (July 4, 1848 – August 27, 1910) was the Speaker of the Tennessee Senate from 1885 to 1887.
Biography
Berry was born in Amherst County, Virginia, on July 4, 1848. He was raised on a plantation and educated at Higginbotham Academy, a preparatory school of the University of Virginia.
At the age of 16 Berry joined the Confederate army and fought in the American Civil War, attached to Gray's Battery. After the war, Berry moved to Tennessee and worked for the Tennessee, Virginia, and Georgia Railroad. In 1868 he came to Middle Tennessee and taught in the Davidson County schools, after which he studied law in the office of John C. Burch, of Nashville, and was admitted to the bar. He then moved to Williamson County and was elected County Superintendent. In 1878, he married Mary Oden, daughter of Col. Thomas Oden of Williamson County.
Berry was elected to the Tennessee House of Representatives as a Democrat in 1883, representing Williamson and Maury Counties.
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