The Tennessee House of Representatives is the lower house of the Tennessee General Assembly,the state legislature of the U.S. state of Tennessee.
The Tennessee Senate is the upper house of the U.S. state of Tennessee's state legislature,which is known formally as the Tennessee General Assembly.
Baylor School,commonly called Baylor,is a private,coeducational college-preparatory school in Chattanooga,Tennessee. Founded in 1893,the school's current campus comprises 690 acres and enrolls students in grades 6-12,including boarding students in grades 9-12. These students are served by Baylor's 148-member faculty,over two-thirds of whom hold advanced degrees,including nearly 40 adults who live on campus and serve as dorm parents. Baylor has had a student win the Siemens Award for Advanced Placement in math and science and a teacher received the National Siemens Award for Exemplary Teaching.
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.
Kirk Preston Watson is an American attorney and politician who has served as the 59th mayor of Austin,Texas since 2023,previously holding the office as the 54th mayor from 1997 to 2001. A member of the Democratic Party,he ran unsuccessfully for Texas Attorney General in the 2002 election,when he was defeated by Republican Greg Abbott,later governor of Texas. In 2006,Watson was elected to the Texas Senate from District 14.
The Tennessee Republican Party is the affiliate of the United States Republican Party in Tennessee. Since the mid-1960s,the state has become increasingly Republican. The current chairman of the Republican Party of Tennessee is Scott Golden. It is currently the dominant party in the state,controlling the majority of Tennessee's U.S. House seats,both U.S. Senate seats,both houses of the state legislature,and the governorship.
Alan Shuptrine is a painter known for his Southern and Appalachian Mountains genre. He is a frame-maker,water gilder,and watercolorist. He is the son of painter Hubert Shuptrine (1936-2006).
Beth Halteman Harwell is a member of the board of directors of the Tennessee Valley Authority and the former Speaker of the Tennessee House of Representatives. She served as State Representative for Nashville and is a former chair of the Tennessee Republican Party. First elected to the Tennessee House of Representatives in 1988,Harwell served as a Republican Minority Whip and Commerce Committee chair before being elected to the Speakership. She is the first woman to serve as Tennessee's Speaker of the House. In 2017,she announced her candidacy for governor of Tennessee in the 2018 election.
Doug Overbey is an American lawyer and former politician who served as the United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Tennessee from 2017 to 2021. Prior to becoming the U.S. Attorney,he represented District 2 in the Tennessee Senate as a Republican from 2009 to 2017. Overbey was chairman of the Senate Ethics Committee and vice-chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee and the Senate Finance Committee. He is a senior partner and co-founder of the Robertson Overbey law firm and has served as an adjunct faculty member at the University of Tennessee College of Law. Prior to becoming a state senator,Overbey served in the Tennessee House of Representatives from 2000 to 2008. On February 8,2021,he along with 55 other Trump-era attorneys were asked to resign.
Charles Joseph Fleischmann is an American attorney and politician who has been the U.S. representative for Tennessee's 3rd congressional district since 2011. The district is based in Chattanooga and includes a large part of East Tennessee,including Oak Ridge. He is a member of the Republican Party.
Cameron A. Sexton is an American politician from Tennessee. A Republican,he has been a member of the Tennessee House of Representatives for the 25th District since 2011,and has been the Speaker of the state House since 2019. Before becoming Speaker,Sexton was Majority Caucus Chairman.
The Tennessee College of Applied Technology at Chattanooga is one of 47 institutions in the Tennessee Board of Regents System,the seventh largest system of higher education in the nation. This system comprises six universities,thirteen community colleges,and 28 Colleges of Applied Technology. More than 80 percent of all Tennessee students attending public institutions are enrolled in a Tennessee Board of Regents institution.
Scott Livingston Probasco,Jr. was an American heir,businessman and philanthropist.
Ron Travis is an American politician. He serves as a Republican member of the Tennessee House of Representatives for the 31st district,encompassing parts of Bledsoe,Roane,Sequatchie and Rhea Counties. He was last elected November 6,2018 and he has been in office for 7 years. His term ends in 2020.
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.
Dan Howell is an American politician from Cleveland,Tennessee. Since 2013,he has served as a member of the Tennessee House of Representatives for the 22nd district. He is a member of the Republican Party.
Shane Reeves is an American businessman,pharmacist and politician who is the State Senator for the 14th District of Tennessee,which is composed of Bedford County,Moore County,Lincoln County,Marshall County,and part of Rutherford County. Reeves campaigned as a conservative Republican in the Tennessee State Senate District 14 Special Election in 2018. The special election was mandated because of a vacant seat created by Jim Tracy's acceptance of Tennessee Director for Rural Development with the Trump Administration. Jim Tracy endorsed Shane Reeves. Prior to entering politics,Reeves co-owned Reeves-Sain Drug Store in Murfreesboro,TN,and after selling in 2015,he founded Twelvestone Health Partners in 2016.
Yusuf Hakeem is an American politician. A member of the Democratic Party,he serves in the Tennessee House of Representatives and is a former member of the Tennessee Board of Probation and Parole.
Robin Smith is an American politician who served as the Representative for Tennessee's 26th state house district,beginning in 2018. She is a member of the Republican Party. In March 2022,she resigned and pleaded guilty to honest services wire fraud.
Tennessee's 11th Senate district is one of 33 districts in the Tennessee Senate. It has been represented by Republican Bo Watson since 2006.
