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Giles County is a county located in the U.S. state of Tennessee . As of 2010, the population was 29,485. Its county seat is Pulaski . Southern agriculture pioneer and publisher Cully Cobb was born in Giles County. He was an editor of Progressive Farmer magazine before accepting an appointment in Washington, D.C. , in Franklin D. Roosevelt 's administration as director of the Cotton Division of the New Deal agency, the Agricultural Adjustment Administration .
Giles County is named after William Branch Giles , who was Senator of Virginia and sponsored the admission of Tennessee as the sixteenth state into the Union. He also sponsored the building of the city and courthouse, which has burned four times. The current courthouse was built in 1859 by the George Moore and Sons company. It cost about thirty thousand dollars to complete. Though it stood through the Civil War, it suffered much damage. One of Giles County's local heroes is James McCullam, who served as Grandmaster of the Tennessee Masons, a member of the Confederate Congress, and mayor. He lived in Giles County for seventy years. Until Maury Co was established in November 1807, the area of the future Giles Co was considered to be part of Williamson Co. Two years after the formation of Maury Co, Giles Co was created from southern Maury Co on 14 November 1809 by an act of the State Legislature. Nearly half of the new county lay in Chickasaw territory until September 1816.
