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- ↑ http://www.clubrunner.ca/Data/6760/5965/HTML/110948/RotaryClubHistory2010.pdf History of Clarksville Rotary, 2010
- ↑ http://www.genealogytrails.com/tenn/montgomery/bioBroadbent.html Transcription from Gillum's Prominent Tennesseans
- ↑ http://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1928/TN.html Political Graveyard
- ↑ Pampa Morning Post (Pampa, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 154, Ed. 1 Tuesday, June 2, 1931, newspaper, June 2, 1931; Pampa, Texas. (texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth292988/: accessed March 28, 2017), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History
- ↑ http://www.tngenweb.org/montgomery/biodir/broadbentbio.html Montgomery County Biographies
- ↑ http://mattmixon.artapsu.com/history_of_apsu/index.html Archived 2017-03-29 at the Wayback Machine History of APSU mural