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Rick Tillis
Thomas Richard Tillis (born September 22, 1963) is an American politician who served in the Tennessee House of Representatives from the 92nd district as a member of the Republican Party (United States), Republican Party. During his tenure in the state house he served as the Majority Whip. Tillis, who is the brother of United States Senate, US Senator Thom Tillis, received a General Educational Development, GED from the Florida Department of Education. He was elected to the state house in Tennessee in the 2016 election and served until he was defeated in the 2020 Republican primary by Todd Warner. Tillis served as the Majority Whip from 2018 to until his resignation in 2019, after it was discovered that he was running a Twitter account critical of other Republicans in the state house. Early life Thomas Richard Tillis was born on September 22, 1963, to Margie and Thomas Raymond Tillis. His brother, Thom Tillis, was later elected as a United States Senate, United States Senator fr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tennessee House Of Representatives 92nd District
Tennessee House of Representatives 92nd district in the United States is one of 99 legislative districts included in the Tennessee House of Representatives, lower house of the Tennessee Legislature. It covers all of Marshall County, Tennessee, Marshall County, parts of Franklin County, Tennessee, Franklin County, Marion County, Tennessee, Marion County, and Lincoln County, Tennessee, Lincoln County. Demographics *88.2% of the district is White people, Caucasian *4.4% of the district is African-American *3.6% of the district is Hispanic *0.5% of the district is Asian-American *2.1% is mixed race, mixed Representatives ''*Representative G. A. Hardaway, G.A. Hardaway is still a member of the Tennessee House of Representatives, but was redistricted to the 93rd district after the 2012 election'' Elections 2020 2018 References Tennessee House of Representatives districts {{US-poli-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tennessee General Assembly
The Tennessee General Assembly (TNGA) is the state legislature of the U.S. state of Tennessee. It is a part-time bicameral legislature consisting of a Senate and a House of Representatives. The Speaker of the Senate carries the additional title and office of Lieutenant Governor of Tennessee. In addition to passing a budget for state government plus other legislation, the General Assembly appoints three state officers specified by the state constitution. It is also the initiating body in any process to amend the state's constitution. Organization Constitutional structure According to the Tennessee State Constitution of 1870, the General Assembly is a bicameral legislature and consists of a Senate of thirty-three members and a House of Representatives of ninety-nine members. The representatives are elected to two-year terms; according to a 1966 constitutional amendment the senators are elected to four-year terms which are staggered, with the districts with even numbers being ele ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
21st-century American Politicians
The 1st century was the century spanning AD 1 ( I) through AD 100 ( C) according to the Julian calendar. It is often written as the or to distinguish it from the 1st century BC (or BCE) which preceded it. The 1st century is considered part of the Classical era, epoch, or historical period. The 1st century also saw the appearance of Christianity. During this period, Europe, North Africa and the Near East fell under increasing domination by the Roman Empire, which continued expanding, most notably conquering Britain under the emperor Claudius ( AD 43). The reforms introduced by Augustus during his long reign stabilized the empire after the turmoil of the previous century's civil wars. Later in the century the Julio-Claudian dynasty, which had been founded by Augustus, came to an end with the suicide of Nero in AD 68. There followed the famous Year of Four Emperors, a brief period of civil war and instability, which was finally brought to an end by Vespasian, ninth Roman emp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1963 Births
Events January * January 1 – Bogle–Chandler case: Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation scientist Dr. Gilbert Bogle and Mrs. Margaret Chandler are found dead (presumed poisoned), in bushland near the Lane Cove River, Sydney, Australia. * January 2 – Vietnam War – Battle of Ap Bac: The Viet Cong win their first major victory. * January 9 – A total penumbral lunar eclipse is visible in the Americas, Europe, Africa, and Asia, and is the 56th lunar eclipse of Lunar Saros 114. Gamma has a value of −1.01282. It occurs on the night between Wednesday, January 9 and Thursday, January 10, 1963. * January 13 – 1963 Togolese coup d'état: A military coup in Togo results in the installation of coup leader Emmanuel Bodjollé as president. * January 17 – A last quarter moon occurs between the penumbral lunar eclipse and the annular solar eclipse, only 12 hours, 29 minutes after apogee. * January 19 – Soviet spy Ghe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Johnny Garrett (politician)
Johnny C. Garrett (born August 8, 1978) is an American attorney and politician from the state of Tennessee. A member of the Republican Party, Garrett has represented the 45th district of the Tennessee House of Representatives, based in the northern suburbs of Nashville, since 2019. Early life Johnny C. Garrett was born on August 8, 1978, to John Claude Garrett and his wife Susan Garrett. His father served as president of the Bank of Goodlettsville, the youngest head of a bank in Tennessee as well as co-owner of Cole and Garrett Funeral Home and Cremation Services. Education Garrett earned a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Tennessee and a Juris Doctor from Nashville School of Law. Career Garrett began practicing law in Sumner County in 2006, representing businesses and entrepreneurs. In 2018, Courtney Rogers, incumbent for the 45th district of the Tennessee House of Representatives, announced her retirement. Garrett overwhelmingly won the Republican prima ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jeremy Faison
Jeremy Faison is a Republican member of the Tennessee House of Representatives for the Eleventh District and is the Chairman of the House Republican Caucus. He represents all of Cocke County and part of Hamblen and Jefferson counties. Biography Jeremy Faison was born on September 14, 1976, in Monroe, Georgia. He was homeschooled elementary through high school grade levels and was issued a high school diploma from Victory Christian Academy (Jacksonville, Florida) in 1995, prior to his attending Clearwater College. Faison and his wife also homeschool all of their own children. Faison is married with five children. They reside in Cosby, Tennessee. He is a worship leader at Crossroads Community Church. He plays several musical instruments. Faison and his wife own a pest and wildlife control business in Newport, Tennessee. He is a past president of the Cocke County Republican Party and member of the Cocke County Chamber of Commerce. In 2010, he defeated Eddie Yokley to become Te ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andy Holt (Tennessee Politician)
Andrew Hunter Holt (born December 22, 1981) is an American politician who serves in the Tennessee House of Representatives, representing District 76, covering Weakley County and parts of Obion and Carroll Counties. Holt is a Republican and currently serves as the vice-chair of the Agriculture and Natural Resources Committee and as a member of the Local Government Committee and of the Agriculture and Natural Resources Subcommittee. He served his first term in Tennessee's 107th General Assembly (2011-2012) and was re-elected to the 108th through 110th General Assemblies. As a West Tennessee conservative, Holt was considered a major contender for U.S. Congress in 2016 in the Tennessee 8th District. Education Representative Holt earned an MBA from the University of Tennessee at Martin in 2007. He earned his B.S. in 2004 from the University of Tennessee at Knoxville. Legislation Representative Holt introduced fourteen bills in Tennessee's 108th General Assembly. The bills i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Lamberth
William Gary Lamberth (born December 5, 1977) is an American politician.William Lamberth's victory restores TN District 44 seat to GOP '''', November 06, 2012Lamberth '04 Elected to Tennessee State House William & Mary Law School, November 07, 2012 He serves as a |
Newspapers
A newspaper is a periodical publication containing written information about current events and is often typed in black ink with a white or gray background. Newspapers can cover a wide variety of fields such as politics, business, sports and art, and often include materials such as opinion columns, weather forecasts, reviews of local services, obituaries, birth notices, crosswords, editorial cartoons, comic strips, and advice columns. Most newspapers are businesses, and they pay their expenses with a mixture of subscription revenue, newsstand sales, and advertising revenue. The journalism organizations that publish newspapers are themselves often metonymically called newspapers. Newspapers have traditionally been published in print (usually on cheap, low-grade paper called newsprint). However, today most newspapers are also published on websites as online newspapers, and some have even abandoned their print versions entirely. Newspapers developed in the 17th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hatch Act Of 1939
The Hatch Act of 1939, An Act to Prevent Pernicious Political Activities, is a United States federal law. Its main provision prohibits civil service employees in the executive branch of the federal government, except the president and vice president, from engaging in some forms of political activity. It became law on August 2, 1939. The law was named for Senator Carl Hatch of New Mexico. It was most recently amended in 2012. Background Widespread allegations that local Democratic Party politicians used employees of the Works Progress Administration (WPA) during the congressional elections of 1938 provided the immediate impetus for the passage of the Hatch Act. Criticism centered on swing states such as Kentucky, Tennessee, Pennsylvania, and Maryland. In Pennsylvania, Republicans and dissident Democrats publicized evidence that Democratic politicians were consulted on the appointment of WPA administrators and case workers and that they used WPA jobs to gain unfair political advan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tennessee Valley Authority
The Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) is a federally owned electric utility corporation in the United States. TVA's service area covers all of Tennessee, portions of Alabama, Mississippi, and Kentucky, and small areas of Georgia, North Carolina, and Virginia. While owned by the federal government, TVA receives no taxpayer funding and operates similarly to a private for-profit company. It is headquartered in Knoxville, Tennessee, and is the sixth largest power supplier and largest public utility in the country. The TVA was created by Congress in 1933 as part of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal. Its initial purpose was to provide navigation, flood control, electricity generation, fertilizer manufacturing, regional planning, and economic development to the Tennessee Valley, a region that had suffered from lack of infrastructure and poverty during the Great Depression, relative to the rest of the nation. TVA was envisioned both as a power supplier and a regional economi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Phil Bredesen
Philip Norman Bredesen Jr. (born November 21, 1943) is an American politician and businessman who served as the 48th governor of Tennessee from 2003 to 2011. A member of the Democratic Party (United States), Democratic Party, he was elected in 2002 Tennessee gubernatorial election, 2002 with 50.6% of the vote and reelected in 2006 Tennessee gubernatorial election, 2006 with 68.6%. He is the most recent Democrat elected to a statewide office in the state. He served as the List of mayors of Nashville, Tennessee, 66th mayor of Nashville from 1991 to 1999. Bredesen is the founder of the HealthAmerica Corporation, which he sold in 1986. Since 2011, he has been chair of Silicon Ranch Corporation, a firm that develops and operates solar power stations. On December 6, 2017, Bredesen announced he would run for Bob Corker's open seat in the United States Senate, as Corker chose not to seek reelection in 2018 United States Senate election in Tennessee, 2018. On August 2, 2018, he won the Dem ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
