William Emerson Brock
 William Emerson Brock (March 14 1872 – August 5 1950) was a Democratic United States Senator from Tennessee from 1929 to 1931. (Later his grandson William Emerson Brock III was a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives and a U.S. senator from Tennessee.)Brock was born in Davie County North Carolina where he attended public school and engaged in agricultural pursuits until 1894. In that year he moved to Winston-Salem North Carolina and became a clerk in a general store.