by Ray Hill | Dec 17, 2017 | Columnist, Hill, Ray Hill's Archives, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Ray Hill Edward Ward Carmack, Jr. possessed a name made famous by his father. E. W. Carmack had been a congressman, United States senator and only just barely missed having been elected governor; the elder Carmack had also been a newspaper editor who deftly used...
by Ray Hill | Dec 10, 2017 | Columnist, Hill, Ray Hill's Archives, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Ray Hill Henry Hollis Horton had once been one of the luckiest men in Tennessee politics. Horton had little political experience after beginning a law practice in Marshall County. Horton served a single term in the Tennessee House of Representatives and had been...
by Ray Hill | Dec 3, 2017 | Columnist, Hill, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Ray Hill While Lucille Foster McMillin is barely remembered today, she was a pioneer for women in public service during her time. Married to Benton McMillin, a member of Congress for twenty years and twice governor of Tennessee, Lucille Foster McMillin was...
by Ray Hill | Nov 26, 2017 | Columnist, Hill, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Ray Hill In 1920, Tennessee had done the unthinkable and gone Republican. Not only had GOP presidential nominee Warren Harding carried Tennessee, but the Volunteer State with women newly enfranchised to vote, had elected a Republican governor, Alf Taylor. ...
by Ray Hill | Nov 19, 2017 | Columnist, Hill, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Ray Hill “When the water reaches the upper levels, follow the rats.” Quote attributed to Claude A. Swanson Claude Augustus Swanson was already something of a vestige of a time gone by as he approached the end of his life. Tall, stately, with a full head of...
