The African Methodist Episcopal Church,usually called the AME Church or AME,is a Methodist Black church. It adheres to Wesleyan-Arminian theology and has a connexional polity. The first independent Protestant denomination to be founded by Black people,AME welcomes and has members of all ethnicities.
Joseph Wellington Byrns Sr. was a U.S. politician. He served as a 14-term Democratic congressman from Tennessee,and as the 41st speaker of the United States House of Representatives.
The Tennessee House of Representatives is the lower house of the Tennessee General Assembly,the state legislature of the U.S. state of Tennessee.
Harold Eugene Ford Sr. is an American politician and Democratic former member of the United States House of Representatives representing the area of Memphis,Tennessee,for 11 terms—from 1975 until his retirement in 1997. He was the first African-American to represent Tennessee in the U.S. Congress. He is a member of the Ford political family from Memphis.
John Newton Ford,is a former Democratic member of the Tennessee State Senate and a member of Tennessee's most prominent African-American political family. He is the older brother of former U.S. Representative Harold Ford,Sr. and the uncle of former Tennessee U.S. Representative and 2006 United States Senate candidate Harold Ford,Jr.
The 2006 congressional elections in Tennessee was held on November 7,2006,to determine who will represent the state of Tennessee in the United States House of Representatives.
Memphis,Tennessee is governed by a mayor and thirteen city council members. Since 1995,as a result of a legal challenge,all council members are elected from nine geographic districts. Seven are single-member districts and two have three representatives each.
Kelly Miller Smith Sr. was a Baptist preacher,author,and prominent activist in the Civil Rights Movement,who was based in Nashville,Tennessee.
Mary Pruitt was an American politician and Tennessee State Representative from Nashville,representing the 58th district from 1985 to 2013.
Thaddeus Kirkland is an American politician who served as the Democratic Mayor of Chester,Pennsylvania from 2016 to 2024. In May 2023,he lost the Democratic mayoral primary to Stefan Roots. He served as a Democratic member of the 159th district from 1993 to 2016.
Harold Eugene Ford Jr. is an American financial managing director,pundit,author,and former U.S. Congressman who served from 1997–2007 in the United States House of Representatives as a member of the Democratic Party from Tennessee's 9th congressional district,centered in Memphis. He is a member of the Ford political family from Memphis,and is the son of former Congressman Harold Ford Sr.,who held the same seat for 22 years. In 2006,Ford made an unsuccessful bid for the U.S. Senate seat vacated by the retiring Bill Frist. He was also the last chairman of the Democratic Leadership Council (DLC).
Mike Turner is a Tennessee politician who sat in the Tennessee House of Representatives representing District 51,which is composed of part of Davidson County and includes Old Hickory. He is a member of the Tennessee Democratic Party.
Bishop Reginald Thomas Jackson is the 132nd elected and consecrated bishop of the African Methodist Episcopal Church. Jackson is the husband of Christy Davis-Jackson,Esquire and the father of two children,daughter Regina Victoria Jackson and son Seth Joshua Jackson. Jackson received a bachelor's degree in history from Delaware State University and a Masters of Divinity from the Interdenominational Theological Center.
Charles Spencer Smith (1852–1923) was a Methodist minister and afterwards bishop of the African Methodist Episcopal Church as well as an Alabama state legislator. He wrote numerous pamphlets during his lifetime,as well as a history of the AME Church and Glimpses of Africa (1895) chronicling his 1894 trip to the African continent.
Antonio Parkinson is an American politician and a Democratic member of the Tennessee House of Representatives representing District 98 since his special election March 8,2011,following the death of Representative Ulysses Jones,Jr.
Ryan Williams is an American politician and a Republican member of the Tennessee House of Representatives representing District 42 since January 2011. In 2016,he was elected by his colleagues to serve as the Republican Caucus Chairman.
John J. DeBerry Jr. is an American pastor and politician who served as a Democratic member of the Tennessee House of Representatives,representing District 90 from 1995 to 2021. Unlike many national Democrats,DeBerry identifies as pro-life. Republican Governor Bill Lee appointed him to become his senior advisor in 2020.
The 2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Tennessee was held on November 6,2018,to elect the nine U.S. representatives from the state of Tennessee,one from each of the state's nine congressional districts. The elections coincided with the elections of other federal and state offices,including the gubernatorial election.
The 2019 Nashville mayoral election took place on August 1,2019,to elect the mayor of Nashville,Tennessee. Incumbent Democratic Mayor David Briley,who succeeded Megan Barry following her resignation and won a special election to fill the remainder of her term,ran for re-election. In the August election,Briley came in second behind city councilman John Cooper;however,no candidate took more than 50 percent of the vote,forcing a runoff between Cooper and Briley on September 12,2019. Cooper won the runoff definitively with 69 percent of the vote.
John Ray Clemmons is an American politician from the state of Tennessee. A member of the Democratic Party,he serves in the Tennessee House of Representatives,representing the 55th district,in West Nashville.
