Richard Briggs | |
---|---|
Member of the Tennessee Senate from the 7th district | |
Assumed office January 13, 2015 | |
Preceded by | Stacey Campfield |
Personal details | |
Born | Knoxville,Tennessee,U.S. | December 7,1952
Political party | Republican |
Education | University of Kentucky (MD) |
Richard Briggs (born 1952) is a Republican member of the Tennessee Senate representing the 7th district,which encompasses part of Knox County. [1]
Richard Briggs was born on December 7,1952. [1] He attended the University of Kentucky Medical School receiving his M.D. [1] and then completed a surgical residency and cardiothoracic fellowship at Brooke Army Medical Center. He served in war zones including Desert Storm,Afghanistan and Iraq as a trauma surgeon. He retired from the army with the rank of colonel. [1]
Briggs was elected to the 109th General Assembly. He is currently Chairman of the Senate State and Local Government Committee. He serves as a member of the Senate Rules Committee and Senate Transportation &Safety Committee.
Philip Aloysius Hart was an American lawyer and politician. A Democrat,he served as a United States Senator from Michigan from 1959 until his death from cancer in Washington,D.C. in 1976. He was known as the "Conscience of the Senate". The Hart Senate Office Building is named in his honor.
Allen Joseph Ellender was an American politician and lawyer who was a U.S. senator from Louisiana from 1937 until his death. He was a Democrat who was originally allied with Huey Long. As Senator he had a generally conservative record,voting 77% of the time with the Conservative Coalition on domestic issues. A staunch segregationist,he signed the Southern Manifesto in 1956,voted against the Voting Rights Act of 1965,and opposed anti-lynching legislation in 1938. Unlike many Democrats he was not a "hawk" in foreign policy and opposed the Vietnam War.
David Henry Gambrell was an American attorney who represented Georgia in the United States Senate from 1971 through 1972.
Sir Richard William Scott,was a Canadian politician and cabinet minister.
Brien McMahon was an American lawyer and politician who served in the United States Senate from 1945 to 1952. McMahon was a major figure in the establishment of the Atomic Energy Commission,through his authorship of the Atomic Energy Act of 1946.
Richard Schultz Schweiker was an American businessman and politician. A member of the Republican Party,he served as the 14th U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services under President Ronald Reagan from 1981 to 1983. He previously served as a U.S. Representative (1961–1969) and a U.S. Senator (1969–1981) from Pennsylvania. In 1976,Schweiker was Reagan's running mate during his unsuccessful presidential campaign. He was not related to Pennsylvania governor Mark Schweiker.
James Preston Kem was an American politician representing Missouri in the United States Senate from 1947 to 1953.
Roman Lee Hruska was an American attorney and politician who served as a Republican U.S. senator from the state of Nebraska. Hruska was known as one of the most vocal conservatives in the Senate during the 1960s and 1970s.
James Glenn Beall was an American businessman and politician. A member of the Republican Party,he served as a U.S. Representative (1943–1953) and a U.S. Senator (1953–1965) from Maryland.
Preston "Pete" Murdoch Geren III is an American attorney and politician who served as the 20th United States Secretary of the Army from July 16,2007,to September 16,2009. He is a Democratic former member of the United States House of Representatives from Texas's 12th congressional district. He is the president of the Sid W. Richardson Foundation in Fort Worth,Texas and is a member of the board of trustees of the Institute for Defense Analyses in Alexandria,Virginia.
Adam Benjamin Jr. was an American politician and a United States Representative from Indiana's 1st congressional district,serving from 1977 until his death from a heart attack in Washington,D.C. in 1982. Benjamin was the first Assyrian-American to be elected to the United States House of Representatives in American history. Benjamin served in the Indiana Senate from 1971 to 1977,the Indiana House of Representatives from 1967 to 1971,and was a member of the Democratic Party.
Simon Barclay Conover was an American physician and politician who served as a delegate to Florida's 1868 Constitutional Convention,state treasurer,state legislator,and U.S. Senator from Florida. He served in the Florida House of Representatives including as Speaker. He was a Republican.
Frank Obadiah Briggs was the Mayor of Trenton,New Jersey,from 1899 to 1902. He was a United States senator from New Jersey from 1907 to 1913.
Ebenezer J. Ormsbee was an American attorney and politician from Vermont. A Republican,he served as lieutenant governor from 1884 to 1886,and governor from 1886 to 1888.
Norman Frederick Lent was an American politician from New York. Under both the Republican and Conservative Party banners,he served in the New York State Senate from 1963 to 1970 and in the United States House of Representatives from 1971 to 1993.
James Andrew Haley was an American World War I veteran who served 12 terms as a U.S. representative from Florida from 1953 to 1977.
Richard Lowell Roudebush was an American World War II veteran who served five terms as a U.S. Representative from Indiana from 1961 to 1971.
Marc R. Pacheco is an American state legislator serving as a member of the Massachusetts Senate from the 1st Plymouth and Bristol district. A member of the Democratic Party,he previously represented the 3rd Bristol district in the Massachusetts House of Representatives from 1989 to 1993.
Jonathan Campbell Meakins was a Canadian physician and medical author and member of the Canadian Medical Hall of Fame. In authorship he is known as J. C. Meakins. He published over 160 works,including the textbook The Practice of Medicine. He was also the founder and first president of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada. He was the Dean of the McGill University's Faculty of Medicine from 1941-48.
Jane "Janey" Briggs Hart was an American aviator and in the 1960s,became one of the Mercury 13 women who qualified physically in the same tests as those used for male astronauts. She earned her first pilot's license during World War II and later became the first licensed female helicopter pilot in Michigan.