He worked briefly for the Nashville Banner (directorial cartoonist, 1939–1941) before serving in the United States Army Air Forces during World War II (1941–1945).
Gannett published it for several years, but in 1979 announced that it was assuming publication of the Tennessean while selling the Banner back to local owners Irby C. Simpkins, Jr., Brownlee O. Currey, and John Jay Hooker (Hooker later sold his stake in the paper to Simpkins and Currey).
He was named to the Nashville Banner Elite 11, and was ranked the number three recruit in the state by the Knoxville News Sentinel.
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A contemporary front-page account in the Nashville Banner tells that one lawyer—Captain Quentin Rankin—was murdered by being hanged and then shot, while the other—Colonel R.Z. Taylor (grandfather of author Peter Taylor)—escaped by swimming across the lake in the dark while being shot at by Night Riders.