by Ray Hill | Oct 20, 2019 | Columnist, Hill, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Ray Hill Congressman Joseph W. Byrns, Jr. seemed to have everything going for him; the only child and namesake of long-time congressman and late Speaker of the House Joseph W. Byrns, had defeated a reasonably popular incumbent inside the Democratic primary in...
by Ray Hill | Oct 13, 2019 | Columnist, Hill, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Ray Hill Joseph W. Byrns, Jr. had successfully managed to defeat freshman Congressman Richard Atkinson in a hard fought race. The Democratic nominee – – – and the general election in the Hermitage District was a mere formality, as it was as...
by Ray Hill | Oct 6, 2019 | Columnist, Hill, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Ray Hill For twenty-eight years, the congressman from Tennessee’s “Hermitage District” had been Joseph W. Byrns. Congressman Byrns was a beloved figure inside the Fifth Congressional district and had been Speaker of the U. S. House of Representatives when he had...
by Ray Hill | Sep 29, 2019 | Columnist, Hill, Ray Hill's Archives, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Ray Hill Joseph Wellington Byrns was almost surely the most popular political figure inside Tennessee’s “Hermitage District.” That was the Congressional district in Tennessee which encompassed Nashville and the “Hermitage”, home of General Andrew Jackson. For...
by Ray Hill | Sep 22, 2019 | Columnist, Hill, Ray Hill's Archives, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Ray Hill Kenneth D. McKellar, Tennessee’s senior United States senator, had won a thumping renomination inside the Democratic primary, beating Congressman Finis Garrett, the Minority Leader of the U. S. House of Representatives. Tennessee Republicans...
by Ray Hill | Sep 15, 2019 | Columnist, Hill, Ray Hill's Archives, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Ray Hill Tennessee politics was in flux in 1928 due to the nomination of New York governor Alfred E. Smith as the Democratic nominee for president. Smith, a cigar-chomping, derby hat wearing product of New York’s Hell’s Kitchen was a pronounced wet who openly...
