Hon. B. A. Enloe was born in Carroll County, Tenn., near the village of Clarksburg, January 18, 1848. He is the son of B. S. Enloe, a native of Tennessee, and Nancy O. (Blair) Enloe, of North Carolina. He was educated at Bethel College and Cumberland University, graduating from the law department of the latter institution in January, 1873. He was elected to the Legislature from Carroll County as a Democrat, in 1869, taking his seat soon after he attained his majority, and was re-elected in 1870. In 1872 he was delegate to the National Democratic Convention at Baltimore. He commenced the practice of law at Nashville, in 1873, but soon came to Jackson to enter the law firm of Brown, Enloe & Bullock. In October, 1874, he and Robert Gates purchased the Courier-Herald, and established the Jackson Sun, which was consolidated with the Whig and Tribune in 1877, under the name of the Tribune and Sun, and Mr. Enloe has been editor and proprietor of the latter journal almost continuously since that time. In 1876 he was the Tilden and Hendricks elector for the Eighth District, and he served on the State executive committee from 1878 to 1880. He was appointed commissioner in company with N. Baxter, Jr., by Gov. Marks, in 1879, to negotiate a settlement of the State debt at 50-4. He presided over the State Convention in 1880, and was made a delegate to the National Democratic Convention at Cincinnati. In 1886 he was elected to Congress as a representative from the Eighth District, over the Hon. Sam. W. Hawkins, the Republican nominee, by a majority of 1,697 votes. Mr. Enloe is a member of the Masonic, Odd Fellows, and Knights of Pythias fraternities, and a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church South. He married Fannie H. Ashworth, of Wilson County, Tenn., April 5, 1870, and has one son and three daughters living.

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