William Harrison Frist is an American physician,businessman,conservationist and policymaker who served as a United States Senator from Tennessee from 1995 to 2007. A member of the Republican Party,he also served as Senate Majority Leader from 2003 to 2007. Born in Nashville,Tennessee,Frist studied government and health care policy at Princeton University and earned a Doctor of Medicine degree from Harvard Medical School. He trained as a cardiothoracic transplant surgeon at Massachusetts General Hospital and Stanford University School of Medicine,and later founded the Vanderbilt Transplant Center. In 1994,he defeated incumbent Democratic Senator Jim Sasser. He pledged to only serve two terms.
James Ralph Sasser is an American politician,diplomat,and attorney. A Democrat,Sasser served three terms as a United States senator from Tennessee from 1977 to 1995,and was Chairman of the Senate Budget Committee. From 1996 to 1999,during the Clinton Administration,he was the United States Ambassador to China.
Kenneth Douglas McKellar was an American politician from Tennessee who served as a United States Representative from 1911 until 1917 and as a United States Senator from 1917 until 1953. A Democrat,he served longer in both houses of Congress than anyone else in Tennessee history.
Robert Nelson Clement is an American politician and academic administrator. He is a member of the Democratic Party and served in the United States House of Representatives,representing Tennessee,from 1988 until 2003,when he retired to run (unsuccessfully) for the United States Senate.
Harlan Mathews was an appointed interim Democratic United States Senator from Tennessee from 1993 to 1994. He previously served in the executive and legislative branches of state government in Tennessee for more than 40 years beginning in 1950.
Jamie Roberts Woodson,is the executive chairperson and chief executive officer of the State Collaborative on Reforming Education (SCORE),a Tennessee-based nonprofit and nonpartisan education research and advocacy organization. Previously she served as a state senator in the Tennessee General Assembly (2005–11) and was Speaker Pro Tem and Chairman of the Senate Education Committee. Earlier she served three two-year terms in the state House of Representatives.
Evelyn May Lieberman was an American public affairs professional who,during the Clinton administration,became the first woman to serve as White House Deputy Chief of Staff,and was the first United States Under Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs.
John Bruce "Chip" Saltsman Jr. is an American politician who has served as chairman of the Tennessee Republican Party from 1999 to 2001,senior political advisor to former Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist,and manager of Mike Huckabee's 2008 presidential campaign. He also worked for the Chuck Fleischmann campaign in Tennessee's 3rd district from 2009 to 2010. Saltsman also worked for Randy Boyd's unsuccessful Tennessee Gubernatorial campaign in 2018.
Heather Anne Higginbottom is currently the head of the new JPMorgan Chase PolicyCenter. Prior to her current role,she served as CARE USA's Chief Operating Officer beginning in 2017. Higginbottom was the U.S. Deputy Secretary of State for Management and Resources from 2013 to 2017. She previously served as counselor of the United States Department of State and prior to that had served as Deputy Director of the federal Office of Management and Budget from 2011 until 2013. On October 20,2011,the United States Senate voted 64–36 to confirm her nomination to be Deputy Director of the OMB. She had previously served as the Deputy assistant to the President for Domestic Policy and Deputy Director of the Domestic Policy Council in the administration of Barack Obama from 2009 to 2010,after serving as policy director of the Obama for America campaign.
Alyssa Mende Mastromonaco is an American author,podcaster,spokeswoman,and former government official. She served as White House Deputy Chief of Staff for operations in the administration of President Barack Obama from 2011 to 2014. She was the youngest woman to hold that position. She was later President of Global Communications Strategy &Talent at A&E Networks and the chief operating officer of Vice Media. She has also been a contributing editor at Marie Claire magazine. Since 2017,Mastromonaco has been a podcaster with Crooked Media.
Kathleen Alana McGinty is a retired American politician and former state and federal environmental policy official. She served as an environmental advisor to Vice President Al Gore and President Bill Clinton. Later,she served as Secretary of the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection in the cabinet of Governor Ed Rendell.
The 1994 United States Senate election in Tennessee was held November 8,1994. Incumbent Democratic U.S. Senator Jim Sasser ran for re-election to a fourth term but was defeated by Republican nominee Bill Frist.
Janet Gardner Mullins Grissom was an American lobbyist who worked in the United States Department of State,was U.S. Senator Mitch McConnell's first Chief of Staff,and in the White House under George H. W. Bush.
Joseph Cordell Carr,Sr. was a Democratic Party politician in the state of Tennessee who served 20 years as Tennessee Secretary of State.
The 2014 United States Senate election in Tennessee took place on November 4,2014,to elect a member of the United States Senate from the State of Tennessee. Incumbent Republican U.S. Senator Lamar Alexander defeated Democrat Gordon Ball,and was re-elected to a third term in office with 61.9% of the vote against 31.9%.
William Francis Hagerty IV is an American politician,businessman,and diplomat serving as the junior United States senator from Tennessee since 2021. A member of the Republican Party,he served as the 30th United States ambassador to Japan from 2017 to 2019 under President Donald Trump.
Tyler Joseph"TJ"Ducklo is an American political adviser who served as a special assistant to the president and White House junior deputy press secretary for the Biden administration from January 2021 until February 13,2021,when he resigned after threats he made to a reporter came to light. Ducklo previously worked as the national press secretary for the Joe Biden 2020 presidential campaign.
Craven H. Crowell Jr. is an energy and economic development administrator. He has served in leadership positions in the energy industry,including eight years as chairman of the three-member board of the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA),appointed by Bill Clinton and confirmed by the U.S. Senate in 1993.
Howard Scholer Liebengood was an American lawyer and lobbyist. A protégéof Senator Howard Baker,he served as Sergeant at Arms of the United States Senate from 1981 to 1983 before leaving to become a lobbyist for the Tobacco Institute. He later served as chief of staff to Senators Fred Thompson and Bill Frist.
