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Tennessee Governors & the Path to the US Senate, XIX

by Ray Hill | Jun 21, 2020 | Columnist, Hill, Ray Hill's Archives, Stories In This Week's Focus:

By Ray Hill Pulaski Congressman Ross Bass had defeated Governor Frank Clement for the Democratic nomination to succeed the late Senator Estes Kefauver.  Bass faced Republican Howard Baker in the general election.  It was the first time Frank Clement had lost an...

Tennessee Governors & the Path to the US Senate, XVIII

by Ray Hill | Jun 14, 2020 | Columnist, Hill, Ray Hill's Archives, Stories In This Week's Focus:

By Ray Hill Frank Clement was the first incumbent governor in Tennessee to bid for the United States Senate since Tom C. Rye in 1918.  The unexpected death of Senator Estes Kefauver on August 10, 1963 necessitated a special election in 1964.  For the second time in...

Tennessee Governors & the Path to the US Senate, XVII

by Ray Hill | Jun 7, 2020 | Columnist, Hill, Stories In This Week's Focus:

By Ray Hill Following the unexpected death of Senator Estes Kefauver, jockeying to run in the 1964 special election to serve the remaining term years of Kefauver’s term came down to Congressman Ross Bass of Pulaski and Governor Frank Clement. There seemed to be some...

Frank Goad Clement: A 100th Anniversary Celebration

by Ray Hill | May 31, 2020 | Columnist, Hill, Stories In This Week's Focus:

  By Ray Hill It will surprise exactly no one who knows me well to discover I have been profoundly interested in the portraits of Tennessee’s governors in our State Capitol since I knew they existed. There are many fine portraits of our various chief executives...

Tennessee Governors & the Path to the US Senate, XVI

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

By Ray Hill When Senator Estes Kefauver’s aorta ruptured on the evening of August 13, 1963, it set off a scramble to succeed him.  Governor Frank Clement appointed millionaire businessman Herbert “Hub” Walters of Morristown to fill the remainder of Kefauver’s...

Tennessee Governors & the Path to the US Senate, XV

by Ray Hill | May 17, 2020 | Columnist, Hill, Ray Hill's Archives, Stories In This Week's Focus:

By Ray Hill With the election of Kenneth D. McKellar to the United States Senate, the senatorial ambitions of Tennessee’s governors became a trifle more circumspect.  Some like Gordon Browning never really gave up the desire to go to the U. S. Senate.  A congressman...
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