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American banker and politician
Gender:
Male
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Birth:
19 January 1804
Death:
1 January 1878
The details
Biography
Introduction
John Meredith Bass (1804–1878) was an American banker, planter and Whig politician. He served as the Mayor of Nashville, Tennessee from 1833 to 1834, and again in 1869.
Biography
Early life
He was born on January 19, 1804. His father was Peter Bass.
Career
He was the President of the Union Bank of Tennessee. He also owned plantations in Louisiana and Arkansas. As a Mayor of Nashville in 1833-34 and 1869, he was a Unionist/Whig.
Personal life
On January 7, 1829, he married Malvina Grundy, daughter of Senator Felix Grundy, after she eloped at the age of eighteen. He was a personal friend of slave trader John Armfield. Like him, he owned a cottage in Beersheba Springs, Tennessee. He died in 1878, and he is buried with his wife in the Mount Olivet Cemetery in Nashville.