by design | Nov 27, 2022 | Columnist, Hill, Ray Hill's Archives, Stories In This Week's Focus:
Senator McKellar vs the CIO-PAC By Ray Hill Tennessee’s senior member of its congressional delegation was Kenneth D. McKellar, who had been in Congress for a total of thirty-six years; thirty of those years in the Senate. McKellar had just been handily reelected to...
by design | Nov 20, 2022 | Columnist, Hill, Ray Hill's Archives, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Ray Hill Both of Tennessee’s seats in the United States Senate were up for election in 1964. Oddly, that has been the case every thirty years since 1934. Tennesseans went to the polls to elect both United States senators in 1934, 1964, and 1994. The first...
by design | Nov 13, 2022 | Columnist, Hill, Ray Hill's Archives, Stories In This Week's Focus:
The Last Civil War Veteran in Congress Charles Manly Stedman of North Carolina By Ray Hill Charles Manly Stedman had announced he would not run again to represent his people in Congress in 1930. The eighty-nine-year-old congressman had served for the past twenty...
by design | Nov 6, 2022 | Columnist, Hill, Ray Hill's Archives, Stories In This Week's Focus:
Tennessee’s Modern Republican Party: Dan Kuykendall By Ray Hill There are a handful of folks who deserve the lion’s share of the credit for creating a true two-party system in Tennessee. From 1900-1970, Tennesseans only elected three Republican governors. Howard...
by design | Oct 30, 2022 | Columnist, Hill, Ray Hill's Archives, Stories In This Week's Focus:
John L. Lewis By Ray Hill Perhaps the most famous union leader in American history today is the late Jimmy Hoffa and that is most likely due to the circumstances surrounding his disappearance. For decades, the most prominent labor leader in the United States was John...
by design | Oct 23, 2022 | Columnist, Hill, Ray Hill's Archives, Stories In This Week's Focus:
Tennessee and Right-to-Work, Part 4: The Tennessee Congressional Delegation and the Taft-Hartley Bill By Ray Hill Both Houses of Congress had passed the Taft-Hartley Bill, as both chambers had a majority of Republicans. The 1946 elections had been a terrific success...
