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Thunder On the Mountain: Matthew M. Neely of West Virginia

by Ray Hill | Nov 29, 2020 | Archives, Columnist, Hill, Ray Hill's Archives, Stories In This Week's Focus:

By Ray Hill Matthew Mansfield Neely may be the most resilient politician in our nation’s history.  Perhaps the only person in recorded history who made a better comeback than Neely was Lazarus and while Lazarus came back from the dead only once,  Neely came back from...

Sergeant York: The Movie of the Famed Tennessean’s Life

by Ray Hill | Nov 22, 2020 | Archives, Columnist, Hill, Ray Hill's Archives, Stories In This Week's Focus:

By Ray Hill Sergeant Alvin York was already quite famous when Warner Brother’s studio released a movie based on his life in 1941.  The film would go on to become the highest grossing movie of the year, making York even more famous.  Sergeant York topped Clark Gable...

A Few Tennesseans of Note

by Ray Hill | Nov 15, 2020 | Columnist, Hill, Stories In This Week's Focus:

Tennesseans and the New Deal By Ray Hill Few people today can imagine the suffering during the Great Depression; the Depression brought hardship, hunger and homelessness to millions of people throughout the United States. At the same time, many Americans were plagued...

Congressman William Anderson of Tennessee

by Ray Hill | Nov 8, 2020 | Columnist, Hill, Ray Hill's Archives, Stories In This Week's Focus:

By Ray Hill William Anderson was a rare commodity in Tennessee: a military hero who was a liberal, representing a largely rural district.  After commanding the submarine Nautilus and making the first successful run under the polar ice cap surrounding the North Pole,...

The Unknown Congressman

by Ray Hill | Nov 1, 2020 | Columnist, Hill, Ray Hill's Archives, Stories In This Week's Focus:

Tom Murray of Tennessee By Ray Hill Lest anyone believes being elected to Congress is glamorous and allows one to bask in the limelight of attention by the press and the public, there are far more congressmen slogging through the daily chores that make up a...

Congressman Pat Sutton of Tennessee Part Two

by Ray Hill | Oct 25, 2020 | Columnist, Hill, Ray Hill's Archives, Stories In This Week's Focus:

By Ray Hill Pat Sutton, congressman from Tennessee’s Seventh District, had been renominated over a strong opponent in the 1950 election and reelected that fall.  Clearly ambitious, Sutton, like several other Tennessee politicians, was carefully watching Tennessee’s...
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