by Ray Hill | Nov 21, 2023 | Columnist, Hill, Ray Hill's Archives
By Ray Hill Ray Blanton is little remembered today save for one thing: the corruption of his administration. Compared to many of Tennessee’s more significant historical figures, Blanton’s political career was not long, but it was impossible not to notice the man who...
by design | Nov 19, 2023 | Columnist, Hill, Ray Hill's Archives, Stories In This Week's Focus:
Senatorial Bloodhound: Charles W. Tobey of New Hampshire By Ray Hill Almost certainly, hardly any reader will recall Charles William Tobey, but at one time he was a member of the first congressional committee to become a television sensation, which was headed by...
by design | Nov 12, 2023 | Columnist, Hill, Ray Hill's Archives, Stories In This Week's Focus:
John E. Miles of New Mexico By Ray Hill For 60 years, John E. Miles was a fixture of New Mexico’s political scene. Miles held numerous elected and appointed positions throughout his life and lived long enough to become a senior statesman of New Mexico’s Democratic...
by design | Nov 5, 2023 | Columnist, Hill, Ray Hill's Archives, Stories In This Week's Focus:
K.D. McKellar Goes To Congress, II By Ray Hill The campaigns of Kenneth D. McKellar and his chief opponent for the Democratic nomination in the 1911 special election to fill the vacancy caused by the death of George Washington Gordon had heated up. McKellar...
by design | Oct 29, 2023 | Columnist, Hill, Ray Hill's Archives, Stories In This Week's Focus:
K.D. McKellar Goes To Congress, I By Ray Hill Tennessee has been fortunate to have sent some to Congress who have wielded real influence in the Nation’s Capitol. Tennessee has also had a few men who served for decades in Washington, D.C. Carroll Reece and Jimmy...
by design | Oct 22, 2023 | Columnist, Hill, Ray Hill's Archives, Stories In This Week's Focus:
The Fight for Majority Leader, 1937 By Ray Hill Sometime during the night of July 14, 1937, the heart of Joseph T. Robinson stopped beating. Arkansas had honored Joe Robinson with every distinction she could bestow upon a single individual, electing him to Congress,...
