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Jesse Wolcott of Michigan

by design | Jan 22, 2023 | Columnist, Hill, Ray Hill's Archives, Stories In This Week's Focus:

Jesse Wolcott of Michigan By Ray Hill Short, chunky, and bespectacled, Jesse Wolcott looked more like a small town lawyer or accountant than the ideal of a congressman. Yet the framers of the Constitution meant for the House of Representatives to be the people’s House...

Tennessee’s Modern Republican Party: Dan Kuykendall, Part VI

by design | Jan 15, 2023 | Columnist, Hill, Ray Hill's Archives, Stories In This Week's Focus:

Tennessee’s Modern Republican Party: Dan Kuykendall, Part VI By Ray Hill Dan Kuykendall’s family had originally followed a very famous Tennessean to Texas; the Kuykendalls left their West Tennessee home to go to Texas with Sam Houston.  Dan Kuykendall had returned to...

Daniel A. Reed of New York

by design | Jan 8, 2023 | Columnist, Hill, Ray Hill's Archives, Stories In This Week's Focus:

Daniel A. Reed of New York By Ray Hill At the time of his death, Daniel Alden Reed of New York was the senior Republican in the House of Representatives, having served forty years in Congress. Only two Democrats had served longer than Reed; Speaker Sam Rayburn of...

Tennessee’s Modern Republican Party: Dan Kuykendall, Part V

by design | Jan 2, 2023 | Columnist, Hill, Ray Hill's Archives, Stories In This Week's Focus:

Tennessee’s Modern Republican Party: Dan Kuykendall, Part V By Ray Hill Texas native Dan Kuykendall had settled in Memphis, Tennessee.  Like many others, Kuykendall came to Tennessee because of a job.  Kuykendall had been a regional manager for Proctor & Gamble. ...

Knoxville’s Lawyer & Statesman: Hobart F. Atkins

by design | Dec 26, 2022 | Columnist, Hill, Ray Hill's Archives, Stories In This Week's Focus:

Knoxville’s Lawyer & Statesman: Hobart F. Atkins By Ray Hill Like all things, Hobart Freeman Atkins long ago passed into the pages of history.  And like so many others, Hobart F. Atkins deserves to be remembered.  When he died, the Knoxville News-Sentinel...

Tennessee’s Modern Republican Party: Dan Kuykendall, part IV

by design | Dec 18, 2022 | Columnist, Hill, Ray Hill's Archives, Stories In This Week's Focus:

Tennessee’s Modern Republican Party: Dan Kuykendall, part IV By Ray Hill Both of Tennessee’s seats in the United States Senate had been up for election in 1964 due to the death of Estes Kefauver in 1963. Republicans in the Volunteer State had run two serious...
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