by Ray Hill | Aug 16, 2020 | Columnist, Hill, Ray Hill's Archives, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Ray Hill From 1930 until 1964, the Democratic Party reigned supreme in Tennessee. Republicans had only occasionally been able to elect a governor; the last was Alfred A. Taylor in 1920. That year had been something of a high watermark for the GOP. Republicans had...
by Ray Hill | Aug 9, 2020 | Columnist, Hill, Ray Hill's Archives, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Ray Hill It seems odd to be writing about my dear little friend Mackie in this column, but God help me, he belongs to the past now. Evidently there really is such a thing as love at first sight. The very first time I laid eyes on a little Scottish terrier puppy 12...
by Ray Hill | Aug 2, 2020 | 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, just as they had been thirty years earlier in 1934. Thirty years later, Tennesseans would go to the polls to elect two U. S. senators yet again in 1994. Senator Estes...
by Ray Hill | Jul 26, 2020 | Columnist, Hill, Ray Hill's Archives, Stories In This Week's Focus:
The 1964 Senate Races In Tennessee By Ray Hill Lyndon Baines Johnson was a remarkably able politician. The intricacies of Johnson’s complicated personality have likely best been examined in Robert Caro’s splendid multi-volume biography of Johnson. Much of Johnson’s...
by Ray Hill | Jul 19, 2020 | Columnist, Hill, Ray Hill's Archives, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Ray Hill Edith Irene Bailey Baker is the only woman to represent Tennessee’s Second Congressional District in the U. S. House of Representatives. For those folks who recall Irene Baker today, it is usually because she was the step-mother of U. S. Senator Howard...
by Ray Hill | Jul 12, 2020 | Columnist, Hill, Ray Hill's Archives, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Ray Hill I imagine few, if any, readers remember George Grider of Memphis. Grider served one term in Congress from Shelby County, yet he deserves to be remembered due to the fact he defeated the last vestige of the old Crump machine to get to Congress. ...
