by Ray Hill | Oct 20, 2013 | Archives, Columnist, Hill, Ray Hill's Archives, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Ray Hill The name Gore conjures in Tennessee thoughts of former Vice President Albert Gore, Jr., but his father was a very successful politician in an age when it was a more respectable profession and the rough and tumble of Tennessee politics was hard fought....
by Ray Hill | Oct 13, 2013 | Archives, Columnist, Hill, Ray Hill's Archives, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Ray Hill There are quite a few things named for Horace Maynard in our community, not the least of which is Maynardville. Yet, few people seem to recall Horace Maynard, who was one of the masters of Tennessee’s rough and tumble politics before and after the Civil...
by Ray Hill | Oct 6, 2013 | Archives, Columnist, Hill, Ray Hill's Archives
By Ray Hill For more than a decade Leonidas Campbell Houk was the Congressman from Tennessee’s Second District. A man with neatly combed hair and a mustache that would have done justice to a Victorian villain; Houk was a popular political figure who tightly...
by Ray Hill | Sep 29, 2013 | Archives, Columnist, Hill, Ray Hill's Archives
By Ray Hill Camille McGee Kelley, judge of the Shelby County Family Court, was a jewel in the crown of the Memphis machine of Edward Hull Crump. At the time of her appointment in 1920, Kelley was only one of two female judges in the South and the only woman to...
by Ray Hill | Sep 22, 2013 | Archives, Columnist, Hill, Ray Hill's Archives
By Ray Hill One of the more fascinating, as well as disturbing, stories in Tennessee history is that of Camille Kelley who became Judge of the Memphis Juvenile Court. A widow, Camille Kelley was a star in the crown of the Crump machine and when she assumed the bench,...
by Ray Hill | Sep 15, 2013 | Archives, Columnist, Hill, Ray Hill's Archives
By Ray Hill Bryant Winfield Culberson Dunn was born July 1, 1927, the son of Aubert and Dorothy Dunn. Anyone who has had the pleasure of hearing Winfield Dunn cannot help but hear the soft Southern lilt in his voice, which is a reminder of the fact Governor Dunn was...
