by Ray Hill | Jun 22, 2014 | Archives, Columnist, Hill, Ray Hill's Archives
By Ray Hill Henry Horton had won reelection as governor in 1930, but within days the landscape of Tennessee politics was forever altered. Both Horton and his closest political adviser , Luke Lea, were made politically impotent when Caldwell and Company, one of the...
by Ray Hill | Jun 15, 2014 | Archives, Columnist, Hill, Ray Hill's Archives
By Ray Hill Following his ouster as Mayor of Memphis, E. H. Crump ran for and was elected Shelby County Trustee. His removal from the mayor’s office was a humiliation Crump never forgot and he certainly never forgave anyone he considered to have played a part in his...
by Ray Hill | Jun 8, 2014 | Archives, Columnist, Hill, Ray Hill's Archives
Published March 26, 2012 By Ray Hill The modern history of Memphis is inextricably tied to that of Edward Hull Crump. “Mister” Crump was indisputably a political boss in a region of the country where political bosses did not normally flourish. Political bosses were...
by Ray Hill | Jun 1, 2014 | Archives, Columnist, Hill, Ray Hill's Archives
By Ray Hill Buford Ellington is perhaps best remembered today for being one of Tennessee’s “leap-frog” governors, alternating terms with Frank Clement. For almost twenty years, Clement and Ellington ruled Tennessee from the governor’s office. Ellington was not a...
by Ray Hill | May 26, 2014 | Archives, Columnist, Hill, Ray Hill's Archives
By Ray Hill Election fraud is nothing new to politics, nor to Tennessee politics, for that matter. In some states, it was a staple of the election cycle. Charges of election fraud in Tennessee elections have been almost common place throughout history. William G....
by Ray Hill | May 18, 2014 | Archives, Columnist, Hill, Ray Hill's Archives
By Ray Hill Just after the turn of the century, Tennessee’s Democratic Party became almost hopelessly fractured. The candidacies of two men helped to heal the deep divisions inside the Democratic Party in Tennessee: that of Kenneth D. McKellar for the United States...
