Harry Brooks is a
Republican politician from
Knoxville,
Tennessee. He represented District 19 in the
Tennessee General Assembly
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from 2002 to 2021.
Biography
Brooks was born September 4, 1946. He graduated from
Maryville High School, competed his
undergraduate work as a Speech and Communication major at
Carson Newman College
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, and received his
graduate degree from the
University of Tennessee. He is married to Mary and has two children. He retired from
law enforcement and was a business employer before pursuing politics.
He is from Knox County and represented the 19th District in the Tennessee General Assembly. During his time with the Tennessee General Assembly he served on the Education Committee, the State & Local Government Committee,
the Finance Ways & Means Committee, and the Select Committee on
Children and Youth. In 2009, he was appointed to chair the House Education Committee and in 2011 he was appointed to chair the Children and Family Affairs Committee as well as the Joint Ad Hoc Education Finance Committee.
Legislation
In 2011, Brooks sponsored the Virtual Public Schools Act (HB 1030). The legislation, signed into law in May 2011, established provisions for state money to go to for-profit online schools.
[http://news.heartland.org/newspaper-article/tennessee-legislators-okay-profit-online-schools]
References
External links
The Tennessee General Assembly
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Republican Party members of the Tennessee House of Representatives
Politicians from Knoxville, Tennessee
1946 births
Living people
Place of birth missing (living people)
21st-century American legislators
21st-century Tennessee politicians