Maryville is a city in and the county seat of Blount County,Tennessee. Its population was 31,907 at the 2020 census.
Andrew Lamar Alexander Jr. is an American politician and attorney who served as a United States senator from Tennessee from 2003 to 2021. A member of the Republican Party,he also was the 45th governor of Tennessee from 1979 to 1987 and the 5th United States secretary of education from 1991 to 1993,where he helped with the implementation of Education 2000.
William Blount was an American politician,landowner and Founding Father who was one of the signers of the Constitution of the United States. He was a member of the North Carolina delegation at the Constitutional Convention of 1787 and led the efforts for North Carolina to ratify the Constitution in 1789 at the Fayetteville Convention. He then served as the only governor of the Southwest Territory and played a leading role in helping the territory gain admission to the union as the state of Tennessee. He was selected as one of Tennessee's initial United States Senators in 1796,serving until he was expelled for treason in 1797.
The Territory South of the River Ohio,more commonly known as the Southwest Territory or the old Southwest Territory,was an organized incorporated territory of the United States that existed from May 26,1790,until June 1,1796,when it was admitted to the United States as the State of Tennessee. The Southwest Territory was created by the Southwest Ordinance which was similar to the previous two ordinances passed by the Confederation Congress for the parallel establishment and development of the old Northwest Territory of 1786-1803. It pertained to lands situated north of the Ohio River,around the Great Lakes and extending west to the Mississippi River. The lands of the Territory were taken from western areas beyond the mountains of the Commonwealth of Virginia (later to be separated and erected into the new 15th state of the Commonwealth of Kentucky. Western lands were also ceded by the state of North Carolina from lands of the Washington District that had been already ceded to the U.S. federal government by North Carolina.
John Sevier was an American soldier,frontiersman,and politician,and one of the founding fathers of the State of Tennessee. A member of the Democratic-Republican Party,he played a leading role in Tennessee's pre-statehood period,both militarily and politically,and he was elected the state's first governor in 1796. He served as a colonel of the Washington District Regiment in the Battle of Kings Mountain in 1780,and he commanded the frontier militia in dozens of battles against the Cherokee in the 1780s and 1790s.
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.
Joe McCord,born in Knoxville,Tennessee,is a Tennessee politician and formerly served in the Tennessee House of Representatives representing the 8th district,which is a part of Blount County and Sevier County. He was first elected to the 101st General Assembly and served as a member of the
Raymond A. Finney,Jr. is a former Republican member of the Tennessee Senate representing the 8th district,which encompasses Blount and Sevier counties.
William Ward Crutchfield was an American politician and a Democratic member of the Tennessee Senate for the 10th district,which encompassed Marion County and part of Hamilton County. He was a member of the Tennessee House of Representatives from 1957 to 1959 and 1961 to 1963. He served as a state senator from 1963 to 1967 as well as in all General Assemblies from 1987 to 2007.
Brian Kelsey is an American politician and former member of the Tennessee State Senate. A member of the Republican party,he was elected to represent District 31,which encompassed the following parts of Shelby County:Cordova,East Memphis,and Germantown.
James Howard Jarvis II was an American attorney and jurist who served as a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Tennessee.
Arthur "Art" Morton Swann is an American politician who is a Republican member of the Tennessee Senate,representing the 2nd district since December 1,2017. Prior to being appointed to the state senate to replace Doug Overbey,Swann served in the Tennessee House of Representatives,representing the 8th District both Blount County and part of Sevier County in East Tennessee.
The United States attorney for the Eastern District of Tennessee is the chief federal law enforcement officer in forty-one Tennessee counties. The U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Tennessee has jurisdiction over all cases prosecuted by the U.S. attorney. Doug Overbey,who was appointed by President Donald Trump in 2017,is the current U.S. attorney for the District.
Gary R. Wade is a former Chief Justice of the Tennessee Supreme Court. Following retirement he was named vice president and Dean of Lincoln Memorial University's Duncan School of Law on July 28,2015,taking the position on September 9,2015.
Charles Inman was an American politician,soldier and farmer,who served two terms in the Tennessee House of Representatives,from 1865 to 1869. A Radical Republican,he typically supported the initiatives of Tennessee's postwar governor,William G. Brownlow. He voted in favor of the ratification of the Fourteenth Amendment,and supported legislation punishing former Confederates.
Robert Hatton Hodsden was an American physician,planter,and politician who served three terms in the Tennessee House of Representatives. He worked as a government physician on the Cherokee removal in 1838,and served as president of the East Tennessee Medical Society in the mid-1850s. A Southern Unionist during the Civil War,Hodsden represented Sevier County at the East Tennessee Convention in 1861,and was later arrested by Confederate authorities.
The 2018 Tennessee gubernatorial election took place on November 6,2018,to elect the next governor of Tennessee,alongside other state and local elections. Incumbent Republican governor Bill Haslam was term-limited,and is prohibited by the Constitution of Tennessee from seeking a third consecutive term. Republican candidate Bill Lee was elected with 59.6% of the vote,defeating Democratic nominee and former Nashville mayor Karl Dean.
Tennessee's 2nd Senate district is one of 33 districts in the Tennessee Senate. It has been represented by Republican Art Swann since his 2017 appointment to replace fellow Republican Doug Overbey.
The Tennessee House of Representatives 8th district in the United States is one of 99 legislative districts included in the lower house of the Tennessee General Assembly. It covers the some of Knoxville's suburbs in Blount County,with the exceptions of large portions of Maryville and Alcoa,and all of Friendsville and Louisville. The district includes downtown Maryville,Maryville College,Rockford,Walland,Townsend,McGhee Tyson Airport,and the Blount County portion of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. The district shares a border with Knox County,Monroe County,and a protracted border with Sevier County. The district has been represented by Jerome Moon,since 2017.
The 2024 Tennessee State Senate elections were held on November 5,2024,to elect 16 of the 33 seats in the Tennessee State Senate. The elections coincided with the Presidential,U.S. Senate,U.S. House,and State House elections. The primary elections were held on August 1,2024,with the exception of presidential primaries being held on March 5.
