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The last years of Prentice Cooper, I

The last years of Prentice Cooper, I

by Ray Hill | Aug 12, 2018 | Columnist, Hill, Ray Hill's Archives, Stories In This Week's Focus:

By Ray Hill Prentice Cooper had served as governor of Tennessee for six years, the only man ever to be elected to three consecutive two-year terms in modern history. Cooper’s tenure covered the entire period when the United States was fighting a bloody war all across...

Bill Brock of Tennessee, Part Ten

Bill Brock of Tennessee, Part Ten

by Ray Hill | Aug 5, 2018 | Columnist, Hill, Ray Hill's Archives, Stories In This Week's Focus:

By Ray Hill The race for the United States Senate in Tennessee in 1970 was one of the most closely watched races in the country that year.  The race between Congressman Bill Brock, the Republican nominee, and incumbent Senator Albert Gore had national implications. ...

Bill Brock of Tennessee, Part Nine

Bill Brock of Tennessee, Part Nine

by Ray Hill | Jul 29, 2018 | Columnist, Hill, Ray Hill's Archives, Stories In This Week's Focus:

By Ray Hill Congressman Bill Brock’s decision not to run for governor of Tennessee opened the field to a plethora of candidates and for the first time in Volunteer State history serious candidates populated both the Republican and Democratic primaries. Brock opted to...

Bill Brock of Tennessee, Part Five

Bill Brock of Tennessee, Part Five

by Ray Hill | Jul 8, 2018 | Columnist, Hill, Ray Hill's Archives, Stories In This Week's Focus:

By Ray Hill Congressmen Bill Brock and Jimmy Quillen, along with their newly elected colleague John Duncan, gave a dinner for Republican legislators after the 1964 election.  Howard Baker attended the dinner and was surprised when the legislators unanimously announced...

Bill Brock of Tennessee, Part Five

Bill Brock of Tennessee, Part Five

by Ray Hill | Jul 1, 2018 | Columnist, Hill, Ray Hill's Archives, Stories In This Week's Focus:

By Ray Hill Bill Brock formally announced his bid for a second term in Congress on June 1, 1964. Within weeks of Brock’s reelection announcement, “Bookie” Turner announced he was withdrawing from the Congressional race. Turner said he had only taken the plunge as a...

Bill Brock of Tennessee, Part Three

Bill Brock of Tennessee, Part Three

by Ray Hill | Jun 17, 2018 | Columnist, Hill, Ray Hill's Archives, Stories In This Week's Focus:

  By Ray Hill Senator Gore admitted if the Republicans fielded a strong candidate his reelection campaign would be “a tough race.”  Gore also opined Bill Brock would likely be the strongest candidate the Republicans could run against him, but the senator said he...

Ned Carmack, Part II

Ned Carmack, Part II

by Ray Hill | Dec 25, 2017 | Columnist, Hill, Ray Hill's Archives, Stories In This Week's Focus:

By Ray Hill W. “Ned” Carmack’s campaign for the United States Senate ended on a dusty road in rural West Tennessee under circumstances never resolved. Carmack’s wife Charlotte arrived to whisk him home to Murfreesboro, where Carmack spent some time in a hospital....

Ned Carmack, Part II

Ned Carmack I

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...

The Fall of Governor Henry Horton

The Fall of Governor Henry Horton

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...

Clyde Roark Hoey of North Carolina

Clyde Roark Hoey of North Carolina

by Ray Hill | Nov 12, 2017 | Columnist, Hill, Ray Hill's Archives, Stories In This Week's Focus:

By Ray Hill For decades, Clyde Roark Hoey was one of North Carolina’s most personally popular politicians.  Even well before his death, Clyde R. Hoey was something of a caricature.  Always immaculately dressed, Hoey favored a frock coat and bat-wing collar long after...

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