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...
by design | Oct 16, 2022 | Columnist, Hill, Ray Hill's Archives, Stories In This Week's Focus:
Georgia Lusk of New Mexico By Ray Hill Like anyone fascinated with history, I always take special note of “firsts”; for instance the first person ever to be popularly elected to the United States Senate from Tennessee was also our longest-serving senator, Kenneth D....
by design | Oct 9, 2022 | Columnist, Hill, Ray Hill's Archives, Stories In This Week's Focus:
Tennessee and Right-to-Work Part 3 The Tennessee Congressional Delegation and the Taft-Hartley Bill By Ray Hill Only two members of Tennessee’s congressional delegation in the House of Representatives had voted against the labor bill sponsored by Congressman...
