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Tennessee Governors & the Path to the US Senate, VII

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

By Ray Hill   With the sudden death of U. S. senator William Brimage Bate, Tennessee would send someone else to the Senate. Bate had died just days after being sworn-in for his fourth term. Indeed, only two men had ever been elected to serve a fourth term in the...

Tennessee Governors & the Path to the US Senate, VI

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

By Ray Hill Andrew Jackson once said, “A man who is born and reared among this people deserves but little credit for being a soldier and a gentleman, for he can’t help it.”  That description fit William Brimage Bate.  Bate had certainly lived a full life and had been...

Tennessee Governors & the Path to the US Senate, V

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

By Ray Hill William Gannaway “Parson” Brownlow had been elected governor of Tennessee in 1865, taking the oath of office four days before General Robert E. Lee tendered his surrender to Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox. Governor Brownlow was engaged in a heated...

Tennessee Governors & the Path to the US Senate, IV

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

By Ray Hill William Gannaway Brownlow, better known to Tennesseans as “Parson” Brownlow, was another Volunteer State governor who made it to the United States Senate. Brownlow was as colorful a character, perhaps even more so, than his predecessor, Andrew Johnson. By...

Tennessee Governors & the Path to the US Senate, III

by Ray Hill | Feb 23, 2020 | Columnist, Hill, Stories In This Week's Focus:

By Ray Hill Governor Andrew Johnson easily overcame the powerful opposition of the Whig Party in Tennessee, as well as the more conservative elements in his own Democratic Party to win election to the United States Senate in 1857.  Nor was Andrew Johnson satisfied to...

Tennessee Governors & the Path to the US Senate, II

by Ray Hill | Feb 16, 2020 | Columnist, Hill, Ray Hill's Archives, Stories In This Week's Focus:

By Ray Hill Only nine men have made the transition from governor of Tennessee to United States senator. One of those nine was one of the most successful politicians to take part in Tennessee’s turbulent politics: Andrew Johnson. In fact, Andrew Johnson prospered...
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