by design | Feb 4, 2024 | Columnist, Hill, Ray Hill's Archives, Stories In This Week's Focus:
Machine Man: Barratt O’Hara of Illinois By Ray Hill There have been numerous political machines throughout the country; some infamous still to this day. Most of those political machines were to be found in big cities. Tennessee had two active political machines, both...
by design | Jan 28, 2024 | Columnist, Hill, Ray Hill's Archives, Stories In This Week's Focus:
Mr. Revercomb of West Virginia By Ray Hill Stephen Jones of Oklahoma was a personal friend and the biographer of Senator Chapman Revercomb of West Virginia. As Mr. Jones wrote, Revercomb, especially in his second term, looked as if he were made to wear the senatorial...
by design | Jan 21, 2024 | Columnist, Hill, Ray Hill's Archives, Stories In This Week's Focus:
Appointing a Senator: John D. Hoblitzell Jr. of West Virginia By Ray Hill The process for replacing congressmen and U.S. senators is quite different. When a congressman resigns or dies in office, that vacancy must be filled by calling a special election. When a...
by design | Jan 14, 2024 | Columnist, Hill, Ray Hill's Archives, Stories In This Week's Focus:
John Sparkman of Alabama By Ray Hill For forty-two years, John Sparkman served the people of Alabama in either the U.S. House of Representatives or the United States Senate. An enthusiastic advocate for the Tennessee Valley Authority, Sparkman was considered a...
by design | Jan 7, 2024 | Columnist, Hill, Ray Hill's Archives, Stories In This Week's Focus:
Re-electing the Senator: The Final Campaign of William B. Bate By Ray Hill By 1903, only two men had ever been elected to a fourth term in the United States Senate from the State of Tennessee: Isham G. Harris and William B. Bate. The two men had several things in...
by design | Jan 1, 2024 | Columnist, Hill, Stories In This Week's Focus:
Behind the Curtain: Women Come Into Their Own By Ray Hill With women occupying a majority of the seats on the Knox County Commission and the recent centennial of Tennessee being the state to give women the right to vote, it occurred to me to write a column about some...
