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- ↑ "Haslam Names David Purkey Commissioner of Safety and Homeland Security". www.tn.gov.
{{cite web}}: Missing or empty|url=(help) - ↑ "Public Safety Institute - SUAPP - University of Memphis". Archived from the original on 2017-03-08. Retrieved 2017-03-07.
- ↑ Gibbons statement Archived April 22, 2010, at the Wayback Machine
- ↑ "Bill Gibbons drops out of TN governor's race". The Tennessean .
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