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  Tennessee - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Tennessee was admitted to the Union in 1796 as the 16th state, and was created by taking the north and south borders of North Carolina and extending them with only one small deviation to the Mississippi River, Tennessee's western boundary.
Tennessee was the only state that seceded from the Union that did not have a military governor after the American Civil War, mostly due to the influence of President Andrew Johnson, a native of the state, who was Lincoln's vice president and succeeded him as president, due to the assassination.
Tennessee is bordered on the north by Kentucky and Virginia, on the east by North Carolina, on the south by Georgia, Alabama and Mississippi, and on the west by Arkansas and Missouri.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Tennessee   (1491 words)

  
 TENNESSEE - LoveToKnow Article on TENNESSEE   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The whole of the Appalachian Province of Tennessee and the southern portion of the Cumberland Plateau, the Highland Rim, and the Lowland Basin are drained southward arid westward by the Tennessee river and its tributaries.
The northein portion of the Cumberland Plateau, Highland Rim, and Lowland Basin are drained northward and westward by the Cumberland river and its tributaries.
Tennessee was the first of the Confederate states to be readmitted to the Union (July 24, 1866), after ratifying the Constitution of the United States with amendments, declaring the ordinance of secession void, voting to abolish slavery, and declaring the war debt void.
22.1911encyclopedia.org /T/TE/TENNESSEE.htm   (9803 words)

  
 Middle Tennessee - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Middle Tennessee consists of that portion of the state east of the Tennessee River's western crossing of the state (in which it flows northward back into Tennessee after having flowed through northern Alabama) and west of the dividing line between the Eastern and Central time zones.
The only exceptions to this rule are that Hardin County, which is located on both sides of the Tennessee River, is considered to be entirely in West Tennessee and that Marion County is considered to be in East Tennessee despite lying in the Central Time Zone.
Middle Tennessee is known for its rolling hills and fertile stream valleys, as well as for its major city, Nashville.
www.newlenox.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Middle_Tennessee   (350 words)

  
 Lamar Alexander - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
A seventh generation Tennessean, he was born in Maryville, Tennessee as the son of a kindergarten teacher and elementary school principal.
Alexander was the Republican candidate for governor of Tennessee in the election of 1974, but he was defeated by his Democratic opponent, Ray Blanton.
He defeated flamboyant Knoxville banker in the election of 1978, and subsequently served as the 45th Governor of Tennessee (1979-1987), president of the University of Tennessee (1988-1991), and United States Secretary of Education (1991-1993).
www.lexington-fayette.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Lamar_Alexander   (541 words)

  
 Tennessee - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The earliest variant of the name that became Tennessee was first recorded by Captain Juan Pardo, the Spanish explorer, when he and his men passed through a Native American village named "Tanasqui" in 1567 while travelling inland from South Carolina.
The modern spelling, Tennessee, is attributed to, the Governor of South Carolina, who used this spelling in his official correspondence during the 1750s.
The three largest Protestant denominations in Tennessee are: Baptist (43% of the total state population), Methodist (11%), Churches of Christ (5%).
www.bucyrus.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Tennessee   (1620 words)

  
 Bambooweb: Tennessee
The origin of the name Tennessee is usually attributed to the Cherokee word Tanase, a word with no certain meaning (It has been said to mean "meeting place", "winding river" or "River of the great bend").
Tennessee seceded from the Union on June 8, 1861.
Tennessee was the only state that seceded from the Union that did not have a military governor after the American Civil War, mostly due to the influence of President Andrew Johnson, a native of the state, who was Lincoln's vice president and succeeded due to the assassination.
www.bambooweb.com /articles/t/e/Tennessee.html   (930 words)

  
 Winchester, Tennessee Encyclopedia Article, Definition, History, Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Winchester was created as the seat of justice for Franklin County by act of the Tennessee Legislature on November 22, 1809.
The town is named for James Winchester, a soldier in the American Revolution, first Speaker of the Tennessee Legislature, and a Brigadier General in the War of 1812.
It lay on the line of retreat to Chattanooga followed by the Confederate Army of Tennessee during the campaign of 1863.
popularityguide.com /encyclopedia/Winchester,_Tennessee   (776 words)

  
 Tennessee Gov. cuts innovative Medicare program   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
On Jan. 10, Tennessee Gov. Phil Bredesen, a Democrat elected in 2002 on a promise to rescue TennCare, announced that he is cutting 323,000 low-income adults from the program and limiting services for 400,000 others.
Like many other governors, Bredesen said Tennessee's expanded Medicaid program is devouring the state budget, and he cannot afford what had been hailed as one of the most generous government health plans in the nation.
The governor blames a small band of activists and public-interest lawyers for saddling the state with inflexible legal consent decrees that restrict his ability to make less drastic cost savings.
www.post-gazette.com /pg/05018/444060.stm   (984 words)

  
 Book Reviews   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
She married James at age twenty-one and was an invaluable asset at his side while he served as the U.S. Representative for Tennessee (1825-1839), the governor of Tennessee (1839-1841), and the President of the United States (1844-1848).
Tennessee State Symbols is devoted to describing the thirty-one official state symbols of Tennessee as designated by state legislation.
This is an essential book for all academic libraries in Tennessee, all public libraries east of Knoxville, and obligatory for metropolitan public libraries in the other two grand divisions of Tennessee.
www.lib.utk.edu /~tla/TL/v53n4/BkRevs.htm   (3437 words)

  
 Guide to Researching Tennessee Law : Vanderbilt University Law School   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The Tennessee Digest 2d (Range 156 and Reserve) is used for locating Tennessee cases.
There is a separate volume in the Tennessee Code Annotated for rules of state courts.
Tennessee Jurisprudence (Range 156 and Reserve) analyzes specific topics and has references to cases, statutes, court rules, and law review articles.
law.vanderbilt.edu /library/research/tennessee_law.html   (533 words)

  
 Tennessee Law Institute - Profiles
She is an adjunct professor at the University of Tennessee College of Law, and was a member of the Tennessee Law Review, and is a Fellow of the Tennessee Bar Foundation.
Tennessee Law of Evidence, (coauthored with Neil P. Cohen and Donald F. Paine) 3rd Ed.
Certifications of Specialization are available to Tennessee lawyers in all areas of practice relating to or included in the areas of Civil Trial, Criminal Trial, Business Bankruptcy, Consumer Bankruptcy, Creditor's Rights, Medical Malpractice, Legal Malpractice, Accounting Malpractice, Elder Law and Estate Planning.
www.nationalmailroom.nxs.net /sheppeard.htm   (283 words)

  
 The Political Graveyard: Tennessee: Governors
Governors of Tennessee: Events and Candidates of the 1820's (may be incomplete!)
Governors of Tennessee: Events and Candidates of the 1830's (may be incomplete!)
Governors of Tennessee: Events and Candidates of the 1840's (may be incomplete!)
politicalgraveyard.com /geo/TN/ofc/gov.html   (491 words)

  
 Austin Peay Governors, NCAA Division I Mens Basketball, Tennessee Tech Golden Eagles - CBS SportsLine.com
Tennessee Tech, which never trailed, shot 49.2 percent from the field and held the Governors (11-17, 9-6) to just 32.8 percent shooting.
Tennessee Tech jumped out to a 10-2 lead and was on top by as much as 16 points at 28-12 with 4:03 left in the half.
Tennessee Tech answered with a 9-0 run capped by a Jenkins 3-pointer with 13:50 to play to go up 41-25.
www.sportsline.com /collegebasketball/gamecenter/NCAAB_20050222_AP@TNTECH   (339 words)

  
 Tennessee Legislative Materials
The Tennessee General Assembly site provides bill summary, text, amendments, bill history, fiscal notes and status reports for the current session.
These are mandates issued by the governor to implement particular functions, guidelines, rules or procedures of the government.
Tennessee Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations(TACIR)--"Serves as a forum for the discussion and resolution of intergovernmental problems".
www.lib.utk.edu /gpo/tnlegs.html   (1144 words)

  
 List of Governors of Tennessee - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
East was Secretary of State for Tennessee from 1862-1865, appointed by Andrew Johnson, the military governor of the state under Union occupation during the American Civil War.
After Johnson was inaugurated as Vice-President of the United States on March 4, 1865, East became the Acting Governor of Tennessee until William G. Brownlow, the "elected" governor of Tennessee, was inaugurated on April 5, 1865.
The official Tennessee Blue Book does not include East in its list of former governors.
www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Governor_of_Tennessee   (114 words)

  
 Governors   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Governor, Commonwealth of Kentucky; U.S. Senator, Commonwealth of Kentucky.
Governor, Commonwealth of Virginia; U.S. Senator, Commonwealth of Virginia.
Governor, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania; U.S. Governors to the Soviet Union; Undersecretary-General, Department of Administration and Management, the United Nations; Attorney General of the United States.
collaborativealliance.com /ResNet_Share/Subjects/Governors/governors.htm   (358 words)

  
 Governors Club Brentwood, Tennessee (Golf)
The Governors Club golf course is a private 18-hole course highlighted by magnificent stone and rock work.
Governors Club have a great team of people who have put forth a tremendous effort to accomplish what we have done with this course.
Governors Club is very proud of the people who created this masterpiece.
www.ohwy.com /tn/k/k0187260.htm   (102 words)

  
 The Seattle Times: Local News: Issues divide leaders, galvanize demonstrators at governors meeting
By the end of the day, however, the 30 or so governors in attendance were boarding boats to go to dinner together at the home of billionaire software mogul Bill Gates.
Locke and fellow governors from Tennessee, Arizona and several other states also said the large National Guard call-ups for the Iraq war — many of the Guard taken from local police departments — had burdened their states and local communities.
Marc Racicot, Bush-Cheney campaign chairman and a former Montana governor, led the GOP blitz, calling Kerry a liberal who had raised taxes, voted against giving $87 billion to the Iraq war effort last fall and switched positions on a number of issues.
seattletimes.nwsource.com /html/localnews/2001982497_governors18m.html   (975 words)

  
 Tennessee Trivia the Official Website   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Tennessee Woman is oldest Living Person in U.S. Researchers say a Tennessee woman appears to be the oldest living American.
Tara Burns crowned Miss Tennessee 2005 Miss Music City, Tara Burns, a rising senior in Blair School of Music, was named Miss Tennessee 2005-2006 at the Miss Tennessee pageant this June in Jackson, Tenn. See photos of Tara here.
Three Tennesseans on list of richest people...Three Tennessee residents are on the Forbes list of the richest people in the world.
www.tntrivia.com   (536 words)

  
 TN & VA budget battles: Tennessee, Virginia governors share insights into states' budget woes   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
KINGSPORT - Tennessee's and Virginia's chief executives agree that tight revenues are the immediate cause of their states' budgetary woes.
Warner, as a freshman governor, is joining his state's General Assembly in trying to stem the tide of a $5.3 billion revenue shortfall that he and several lawmakers agree could result in the elimination of some state agencies and consolidation of functions.
What is fundamentally wrong with Sundquist and so many of the government bureaucrats and politicians is their viewpoint that any money the people keep is a loss to government, and further that government with less money is an evil or at least an undesirable situation.
www.freerepublic.com /focus/fr/738603/posts   (1410 words)

  
 Virginia Moore   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
She left the university for two years to serve as assistant to the commissioner of employment security and returned to become assistant dean and director of the Master of Business Administration program in the College of Business Administration.
She served as president of the Board of Trustees of Leadership Putnam and is presently a member of that board and is also one of five partners who chartered Leadership Upper Cumberland, a 17-county regional leadership program.
She is a member of the executive board of the Tennessee Humanities Council and serves on the Ethics Committee of the Cookeville General Hospital.
www.tntech.edu /cmr/facassoc/MOORE.HTM   (184 words)

  
 Governors of Tennessee
American frontiersman, first governor of Tennessee, was born in Rockingham county, Virginia, on the 23rd of September 1745, of Huguenot ancestry, the family name being XAVIER.
When Tennessee was admitted into the Union as a state, Sevier became its first governor (1796-1801) and was governor again in 1803-1809.
He was again a member of the National House of Representatives in 1811-1815, and then was commissioner to determine the boundary of Creek lands in Georgia.
freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com /~auntsissie/govtn.html   (445 words)

  
 The Governors Club, Brentwood - Tennessee Golf Communities - Golf Homes   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The Governors Retreat, with homesites in the $120,000s and homes in the upper $500,000s.
The Governors Woods, where homesites start at $130,000 and custom homes begin in the $600,000.
Once a home has been constructed within The Governors Club, it may not be built within the community again.
www.golfcourserealty.com /golf-communities/tennessee/govenors-club.htm   (306 words)

  
 Governors hold pollution summit in Appalachians   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
GATLINBURG, Tenn. — The governors of Tennessee, North Carolina, Georgia and Kentucky meet today to discuss a growing concern that pollution is ruining the once pristine air of the southern Appalachians.
This is the governors' third annual summit on mountain air quality and the first held in the Great Smoky Mountains, the most visited national park in the country and one of the most polluted.
The first summit in 1999 produced a memorandum of understanding between Tennessee and North Carolina pledging to protect the air quality of the Smokies and other sensitive areas through their industrial permitting process.
www.enquirer.com /editions/2001/06/01/loc_governors_hold.html   (546 words)

  
 The Bank of Nashville, Nashville, Tennessee   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
This is in reference to the application by The Bank of Nashville, Nashville, Tennessee (Bank), to establish a branch office located at 3169 Lebanon Pike, Nashville, Tennessee, pursuant to section 9 of the Federal Reserve Act.
The Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System has amended the procedures for establishing a branch, which, based upon certain criteria, allow a state member bank to open a branch three to five business days after the expiration of a one-time, 15-day newspaper comment period unless notified to the contrary by the Reserve Bank.
Because Bank meets the requirements for these amended procedures, the transaction may be consummated three business days after expiration of the comment period, or February 12, 2002, unless notified to the contrary by the Reserve Bank.
www.frbatlanta.org /bank_info/bank_app/infoletters/2002/feb/0202012.htm   (268 words)

  
 Messages of the Governors of Tennessee ($12.00 per vol)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Messages of the Governors of Tennessee ($12.00 per vol)
Messages of the Governors of Tennessee by Robert H. White, Ph.D., State Historian.
, A significant contribution to the history of Tennessee.
members.cox.net /fluyt1/msgtn.htm   (95 words)

  
 University of Tennessee News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
News on University of Tennessee Sports continually updated from thousands of sources around the net.
University of Tennessee at Martin women's basketball co-head coaches Gary and Kim Van Atta announced their resignation, effective immediately, from UT Martin this morning during a press conference in the Boling...
To Tennessee Martin athletics director Phil Dane, the man he hired last December to run the Skyhawks' football program has been wonderful, and not solely because of his tireless work ethic.
www.topix.net /ncaa/tennessee-martin   (1550 words)

  
 Business Wire: Holliday Fenoglio Fowler Arranges $18.1 Million Financing For The Governors Club of Tennessee in ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The Los Angeles office of Holliday Fenoglio Fowler, L.P. arranged an $18.1 million loan for The Governors Club of Tennessee, a 617-acre residential development in Brentwood (Nashville), Tennessee.
GC Finance LLC is managed by Oaktree Capital Management, LLC, which has an investment portfolio of approximately $25 billion and a real estate portfolio of approximately $2 billion.
The Governors Club of Tennessee is a gated residential community surrounding a private Arnold Palmer Golf Course in Brentwood (20 minutes south of Nashville).
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0EIN/is_2003_August_20/ai_106737853   (370 words)

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