Jay Guy Cisco (April 25, 1844 - April 24, 1922) was an American Confederate veteran, journalist, diplomat and businessman. He was the owner of a bookstore and the editor of the ''Forked Deer Blade'' newspaper in

Jackson, Tennessee Jackson is a city in and the county seat of Madison County, Tennessee, United States. Located east of Memphis, Tennessee, Memphis and 130 Miles Southwest of Nashville, it is a regional center of trade for West Tennessee. Its total population wa ...

. He was a U.S. consul to Mexico, and an agent for the

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Early life

Cisco was born on April 25, 1844, in New Orleans, Louisiana. During the

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of 1861–1865, he served in the

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. He subsequently traveled to Europe.

Career

Cisco moved to

, where he was the owner of a bookstore known as Cisco's Bookstore. He became the editor of the ''Forked Deer Blade'' in Jackson in 1883. He was a proponent of

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. Cisco was appointed as a consul to Mexico by President

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in 1888. He was an agent for the

from 1897 to 1922.

Personal life and death

Cisco married Mildred George Pursley; they had four sons and two daughters. They resided at 912 Boscobel Street in Nashville. Cisco died on April 24, 1922, in Nashville.

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