by design | Feb 23, 2025 | Columnist, Hill, Ray Hill's Archives, Stories In This Week's Focus:
The Fall of Congressman John Jennings, III By Ray Hill John Jennings had represented Tennessee’s Second Congressional District since 1940 and as 1950 dawned, the congressman faced the greatest threat to his continued tenure in office in a decade. Carroll Reece, who...
by design | Feb 16, 2025 | Columnist, Hill, Ray Hill's Archives, Stories In This Week's Focus:
The Fall of Congressman John Jennings, II By Ray Hill Guy Smith, editor of the Knoxville Journal, was left seething with anger following the 1948 election. For the first time since 1916, Tennessee Republicans had nominated serious candidates for both the governorship...
by design | Feb 9, 2025 | Columnist, Hill, Ray Hill's Archives, Stories In This Week's Focus:
The Fall of Congressman John Jennings, I For the decade from 1940-1951, the congressman from Tennessee’s reliably Republican Second Congressional District was John Jennings. Bald on top, bespectacled, a very good speaker and an equally good lawyer who had once served...
by design | Feb 2, 2025 | Columnist, Hill, Ray Hill's Archives, Stories In This Week's Focus:
Carroll Reece and Jimmy Quillen By Ray Hill From 1921 until 1997, two men occupied the seat in the U.S. House of Representatives from Tennessee’s First District, with the exception of six years. Carroll Reece served 36 years, as did Jimmy Quillen; however, Reece’s...
by design | Jan 26, 2025 | Columnist, Hill, Ray Hill's Archives, Stories In This Week's Focus:
The Gentleman From Connecticut: William J. Miller By Ray Hill William Jennings Miller made the most of his short life, fighting for his country, overcoming a serious handicap at a time when there were little or no concessions to people with disabilities, and serving...
by design | Jan 19, 2025 | Columnist, Hill, Ray Hill's Archives, Stories In This Week's Focus:
The Gentleman From Minnesota: Melvin Maas By Ray Hill I would be surprised if a single reader has ever heard of Melvin J. Maas, but his was a truly remarkable life. A pilot during both World Wars, Maas was at various times a soldier, a congressman and a businessman. ...
