William P. Moss

Moss served as the Jackson city attorney from 1925 to 1943. A Democrat, he was elected to two terms in the Tennessee State Senate, serving from 1933 to 1937, and was elected speaker for the 1936-7 session. (In Tennessee, the speaker of the senate is second in line for the governorship, similar to the lieutenant governor in other states.) In 1937-8 he served as a special judge on the Court of Appeals. From 1943 to 1945 he was the president of the Jackson-Madison Bar Association. In 1953 he served as a member of a constitutional convention to revise the constitution. Moss was the chairman of the Tennessee Bar Association 1960–1. In 1963 he was appointed to the newly constituted Law Revision Commission.^[1]

Moss married Lutitia Saxon Myers (1914–1995) on June 29, 1935; they had 4 children, William Preston Moss Jr. (1936–1997), Michael Durham Moss (1938–2022), John Ramsey Moss (1941–2011), Mary Lutitia Pettigrew (19??– ).