Editing George Roby Dempster (section)

{{Short description|American businessman and politician}}
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| name   = George Roby Dempster
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| birth_date  = {{birth date|1887|09|16}}<ref name=findagrave>{{find a Grave|14060285}}</ref>
| birth_place = [[Knoxville, Tennessee]], United States
| death_date  = {{death date and age|1964|09|18|1887|09|16}}
| death_place = Knoxville, Tennessee
| resting_place = Greenwood Cemetery<br/> Knoxville, Tennessee
| occupation     = Businessman, inventor, politician 
| spouse         = Mildred Frances Seymour<ref name=deaderick />
| parents        = John Dempster and Ann Doherty
| children       = George S. Dempster<br/>Josephine Dempster (Epperson)<br/>Ann Dempster (Smallman)
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| party       = [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic]]
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'''George Roby Dempster'''  (September 16, 1887 &ndash; September 18, 1964) was an American businessman, inventor, and politician, active primarily in [[Knoxville, Tennessee]], during the first half of the 20th century.  Dempster is known for the invention of the Dempster-[[Dumpster]], a now-commonly-used [[dumpster|trash receptacle]] that can be mechanically emptied into garbage trucks.  During the 1910s and 1920s, the Dempster Brothers Construction Company, operated by Dempster and his brothers, built a number of roads and railroads across the Southern [[Appalachia]]n region.<ref name=deaderick>East Tennessee Historical Society, Lucile Deaderick (ed.), ''Heart of the Valley: A History of Knoxville, Tennessee'' (Knoxville, Tenn.: East Tennessee Historical Society, 1976), pp. 519-521.</ref>  Dempster also served as a [[city manager]] and mayor of Knoxville, where he became known for his political battles with eccentric Knoxville businessman [[Cas Walker]] and ''[[Knoxville Journal]]'' editor [[Guy Smith Jr.]]<ref name=wheeler>Bruce Wheeler, ''Knoxville, Tennessee: A Mountain City in the New South'' (Knoxville, Tenn.: University of Tennessee Press, 2005), pp. 73-82, 111-113, 122.</ref>