Albert Virgil Goodpasture is best known as the author of the school text History of Tennessee, coauthored with William R. Garrett. He earned the bachelor’s degree from UT in 1875, a law degree from Vanderbilt in in 1877, and a master’s in history from UT in 1882. He moved to Montgomery County, where he became active in the Tennessee Agricultural Wheel and the Tennessee Farmers’ Alliance. He served as a state representative from 1887 to 1889, state senator from 1889 to 1891, and clerk of the Tennessee Supreme Court from 1891 to 1897. Goodpasture edited the American Historical Magazine, the predecessor of the Tennessee Historical Quarterly. He served as secretary of the Tennessee Historical Society from 1903 to 1912, and became one of the original members of the Tennessee Historical Commission in 1919. He wrote numerous articles on Tennessee, principally in the Tennessee Historical Magazine.