by Ray Hill | Feb 22, 2015 | Archives, Hill, Ray Hill's Archives
By Ray Hill Hill McAlister very much wanted to be governor of Tennessee and made repeated efforts before finally achieving his goal. Once in office, McAlister found it bit tougher than he likely expected. McAlister was born in Nashville on July 15, 1875 and...
by Ray Hill | Feb 15, 2015 | Archives, Columnist, Hill, Ray Hill's Archives
By Ray Hill Just after the turn of the century, Tennessee’s Democratic Party became almost hopelessly fractured. The candidacies of two men helped to heal the deep divisions inside the Democratic Party in Tennessee: that of Kenneth D. McKellar for the United...
by Ray Hill | Feb 1, 2015 | Archives, Columnist, Hill, Ray Hill's Archives
By Ray Hill Austin Peay was once one of Tennessee’s more famous governors, hailed as perhaps one of the most talented reformers in the state’s history. The late governor’s legacy is hardly confined to the university named for him in his home city of Clarksville. Born...
by Ray Hill | Jan 18, 2015 | Archives, Columnist, Hill, Ray Hill's Archives
By Ray Hill Tennessee has been quite fortunate in oftentimes having an excellent Congressional delegation. The landscape and economic condition of Tennessee would be much different had it not been for the ability of some of our Congressional delegation to secure...
by Ray Hill | Jan 11, 2015 | Archives, Columnist, Hill, Ray Hill's Archives
By Ray Hill Prentice Cooper had been governor of Tennessee for six years; the first man to be elected to three two-year terms since Austin Peay. Unlike Peay, Cooper lived through his entire tenure of office, but in 1944, he could not run again. Governor Cooper was a...
by Ray Hill | Jan 4, 2015 | Archives, Columnist, Hill, Ray Hill's Archives
By Ray Hill 2015 marks the one-hundredth year since the people of Tennessee cast their ballots to select a candidate for the United States Senate. There had previously been non-binding preferential primaries, as senators were still elected by the state legislature....
