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The U.S. Senate In The Age of McKellar: 1917 – 1953

by Ray Hill | May 13, 2012 | Archives, Columnist, Hill, Ray Hill's Archives

By Ray Hill   Kenneth Douglas McKellar arrived in the United States Senate in 1917 and it was a much sleepier place than it would become a few decades later. Capitol Hill has always been almost a world unto itself through the ages and still is; the Senate had its...

Edward Hull Crump: The Boss, Part VII

by Ray Hill | May 6, 2012 | Archives, Columnist, Hill, Ray Hill's Archives

  By Ray Hill Despite encountering stiff opposition to the candidates supported by Shelby County Boss E. H. Crump and Tennessee’s senior United States Senator Kenneth D. McKellar, the two men were supporting Jim Nance McCord for governor in 1944. McCord had been...
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