James Percy Priest attended UT in Knoxville in 1923. He was a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from 1940 to 1956.
Government and Military
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Thomas A.R. Nelson graduated in 1828 and served in the U.S. House of Representatives and on the Tennessee Supreme Court. He was counsel to President Andrew Johnson during his impeachment…
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Ed Jones attended UT Junior College (now UT Martin) and graduated from UT in Knoxville in 1934. He was Tennessee commissioner of agriculture from 1949 to 1952 and served in…
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Thomas G. Hull (1951) was chief U.S. district judge in Greeneville, Tennessee. He was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1955.
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John Chiles Houk attended UT Knoxville from 1872 to 1879. He was a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from 1891 to 1895 and later served in the Tennessee…
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John J. Duncan Sr. attended UT from 1939 to 1941. He was mayor of Knoxville and served in the U.S. House of Representatives.
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John Hervey Crozier (1829) was president of the Knoxville and Kentucky Railroad and served in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1845 to 1849.
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Walter C. Chandler (1909) was a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from 1935 to 1940 and served as mayor of Memphis from 1940 to 1946 and in 1955.
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Howard Baker Sr. (1922, 1924) served in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1951 to 1964.
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Richard Wilson Austin, an 1877 graduate of East Tennessee University (UT’s predecessor), was consul to Scotland from 1906 to 1907 and served in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1909…