John K. Shields
 John Knight Shields (August 15 1858 – September 30 1934) was a Democratic United States Senator from Tennessee from 1913 to 1925.Shields was born at his family's estate Clinchdale near the early pioneer settlement of Bean's Station Tennessee in Grainger County. His education as a youth was by private tutors a sign of the family's affluence. He studied law and was admitted to the Tennessee bar in 1879.