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Cicero Buchanan, M. D., county superintendent of the public schools of Wayne County, Tenn., was born in Giles County, Tenn., April 20, 1842, and is a son of Samuel G. and Sarah E. Buchanan, who were born and reared in Tennessee. Dr. Buchanan was educated at State Springs Academy in Giles County, and his boyhood days were spent on his father’s farm. At the breaking out of the late civil war he, in 1861, enlisted in the Third Tennessee Regiment, serving until the close of the war and participating in many of the hardest-fought battles. After Lee’s surrender he returned to his home and began the study of medicine under Dr. A. H. Berry, of Lawrenceburg, Tenn., and in 1867 entered the medical department of the University of Nashville, attending one course of lectures. In the fall of 1868 he graduated as an M. D. from the Atlanta (Ga.) Medical College, and in February, 1869, located at Waynesboro, and has since been actively engaged in the practice of his profession. He is regarded as a well-read and reliable physician by his patrons and brother physicians, and has been prosperous both professionally and financially. The Doctor owns about 1,500 acres of land, about 200 acres of which is in a fair state of cultivation. In 1871 Amos and Mary A. Hassell’s daughter, Ella A., became his wife. Dr. Buchanan has taken an active part in educational affairs of late years, and in 1882 was elected to the office of county superintendent, and still holds the position. He is one of the Wayne County health officers, is a Democrat and belongs to the F. & A. M.