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 …
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John Dewitt Clinton Atkins graduated from East Tennessee University (UT’s predecessor) in 1846. He served in the U.S. House of Representatives, the Tennessee House and the Tennessee Senate. He was …
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Washington Curran Whitthorne (1843) was a U.S. senator from Tennessee in 1886-87 and a U.S. representative. He also was speaker of the Tennessee House of Representatives.
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Estes Kefauver (1924) served in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1939 to 1949 and in the Senate from 1949 to 1963. He was the Democratic party’s vice presidential nominee …
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Albert Gore Sr. attended UT in Knoxville from 1926 to 1928. He served in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1939 to 1953 and the U.S. Senate from 1953 to …
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Clement C. Clay received one of the first degrees granted by East Tennessee College (now UT) in 1807. He served in the U.S. House of Representatives, as a U.S. senator …
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Zach Wamp attended UT Knoxville. He represents Tennessee’s third district in the U.S. House of Representatives. His service began in 1995. He is the only Tennessean who serves on the …
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John Tanner (1966, 1968) has served in the U.S. House of Representatives from Tennessee’s eighth district since 1989. He served in the Tennessee House of Representatives from 1977 to 1989.