by design | Jan 21, 2024 | Columnist, Hill, Ray Hill's Archives, Stories In This Week's Focus:
Appointing a Senator: John D. Hoblitzell Jr. of West Virginia By Ray Hill The process for replacing congressmen and U.S. senators is quite different. When a congressman resigns or dies in office, that vacancy must be filled by calling a special election. When a...
by design | Jan 14, 2024 | Columnist, Hill, Ray Hill's Archives, Stories In This Week's Focus:
John Sparkman of Alabama By Ray Hill For forty-two years, John Sparkman served the people of Alabama in either the U.S. House of Representatives or the United States Senate. An enthusiastic advocate for the Tennessee Valley Authority, Sparkman was considered a...
by design | Jan 7, 2024 | Columnist, Hill, Ray Hill's Archives, Stories In This Week's Focus:
Re-electing the Senator: The Final Campaign of William B. Bate By Ray Hill By 1903, only two men had ever been elected to a fourth term in the United States Senate from the State of Tennessee: Isham G. Harris and William B. Bate. The two men had several things in...
by design | Jan 1, 2024 | Columnist, Hill, Stories In This Week's Focus:
Behind the Curtain: Women Come Into Their Own By Ray Hill With women occupying a majority of the seats on the Knox County Commission and the recent centennial of Tennessee being the state to give women the right to vote, it occurred to me to write a column about some...
by design | Dec 25, 2023 | Columnist, Hill, Ray Hill's Archives, Stories In This Week's Focus:
Life With Wild Bill By Ray Hill George Graham Vest, an outstanding attorney and U. S. senator from Missouri, is still remembered to this day for his tribute to dogs. Vest had been hired by Charles Burden whose dog, Old Drum, had been killed by his brother-in-law,...
by design | Dec 17, 2023 | Columnist, Hill, Ray Hill's Archives, Stories In This Week's Focus:
The Tribune’s Sentinel: Charles Wayland Brooks By Ray Hill From 1940 until 1949, Charles Wayland Brooks served in the United States Senate. A successful attorney who had fought in the First World War, Brooks was known to his friends as “Curly” because of his hair;...
