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SNEED, John Louis Taylor, jurist, born in Raleigh, North Carolina, 12 May, 1820. He was educated at Oxford male academy, North Carolina, removed to Tennessee, became a member of the legislature in 1845, and was captain of a Tennessee company in the Mexican war in 1846-'7. He was attorney-general of the Memphis judicial district in 1851, attorney-general of the state of Tennessee in 1854-'9, and in 1861 was commissioned brigadier-general of the provisional army of the state of Tennessee. He was judge of the state supreme court in 1870-'8, and of the court of arbitration in 1879, presidential elector on the Hancock ticket in 1880, and judge of the state court of referees in 1883-'4. In 1888 he was chosen president of the Memphis school of law. He is the author of "Reports of the Supreme Court of Tennessee, 1854-'9" (Nashville).
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