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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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