Mack Lendon
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Character Key:
Display Name:
Mack Lendon
Sort Name:
Lendon, Mack
Parent:
AKA:
John McLendon
Jackson McLendon
Race:
White
Gender:
Male
Class:
Lower Class
Rank:
Minor
Vitality:
Alive
Occupation:
Armed Forces
First Mentioned:
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Biography:
Mack Lendon is "one of a big family of brothers in a big house" (205). A "cotton man, a buyer for one of the Memphis export houses" (207), when the US enters World War I he organizes a group of local volunteers into the Sartoris Rifles, of which he is the original Captain. But according to Charles Mallison, he was "such a bad company commander that he was relieved of his command long before it ever saw the lines" (206). The "something here in Jefferson" that (as John McLendon) he was involved in "a few years after this" that Mallison mentions is the lynching described in Faulkner's early short story "Dry September" (206).
Individual or Group:
Individual
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