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Cate, William Henderson

soldier, lawyer, congressman, was born Nov. 11, 1839, in Rutherford county, Tenn. He was elected to the legislature of 1871 and. 1873, including the extra session of 1874; was elected prosecuting attorney of the second circuit in 1878; was appointed. judge of the second circuit in March, 1884, and was elected to the same position without opposition in September, 1884. He or-- ganized the bank of Jonesborough 1887; and received certificate of election to the fifty-first congress as a democrat; and was elected to the fifty-second congress as a democrat. in