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	Ned McWherter - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Ned Ray McWherter (born October 15, 1930) is an American politician who served as the 46th Governor of Tennessee from 1987 to 1995.
		McWherter was born in Palmersville, in Tennessee's northwest corner.
		McWherter set an example of progressive and honest leadership by insisting all formal governmental proceedings be open to the public and press, implementing the spirit, as well as the letter, of the "sunshine law" he had helped to author and sponsor while a member of the House.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ned_McWherter (803 words)

	TN Encyclopedia: NED RAY MCWHERTER
		Ned Ray McWherter, governor and Speaker of the Tennessee House, was born in Palmersville, Weakley County, to Harmon Ray and Lucille Golden Smith McWherter in 1930.
		McWherter (1991), which found the Tennessee system of funding local schools to be in violation of the equal protection clause of the Tennessee Constitution.
		McWherter's innovative reform of the state Medicaid system, the TennCare program, has been monitored carefully by officials from other states who are interested in new programs that provide health care for needy citizens at a reasonable public cost.
	tennesseeencyclopedia.net /imagegallery.php?EntryID=M061 (519 words)

	Ned Ray McWherter (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Ned Ray McWherter was born October 15, 1930 in Palmersville, Tennessee to Lucille Golden Smith McWherter and Harmon Ray McWherter.
		Son Michael Ray McWherter is a businessman in Dresden and daughter Linda Ramsey is a doctor of physical education at the University of Tennessee at Martin.
		Following Governor McWherter's last term as chief executive in 1995, he was appointed to the Board of Governors of the United States Postal Service by President Bill Clinton and currently holds that position.
	www.utm.edu /departments/acadpro/library/departments/special_collections/wc_hist/nrmcwhrt.htm (463 words)

	The Memphis Flyer :: the mid-south's news weekly: Politics: Jackson Baker: THE 'GOOD OLE BOY' STYLE IN TENNESSEE ...
		McWherter's statement about politics in the state was simple - it is much easier to connect with the folks when you are actually one of them.
		McWherter, a rural state legislator to the bone, simply oozed countryside -from his lumbering walk to his portly build and his thick drawl.
		McWherter was an anomaly on the modern Tennessee landscape in that he didn't have to pretend to fit in with the courthouse crowd in any county seat.
	www.memphisflyer.com /memphis/PrintFriendly?oid=oid:7448 (834 words)

	KnoxNews: State
		Former Gov. Ned McWherter told The Associated Press Thursday that he traveled to the clinic late in his first term for an evaluation of a persistent stomach ailment that turned out be an ulcer.
		McWherter said his trip to the Mayo Clinic in 1990 or 1991 did not draw nearly the same level of scrutiny as Bredesen's current visit.
		McWherter, a 75-year-old Democrat, was governor from 1987 to 1995 following 18 years in the Legislature — 14 as House speaker.
	www.knoxnews.com /kns/state/article/0,1406,KNS_348_4942037,00.html (402 words)

	TennCare: The Perils of Cost Containment
		Ned McWherter was a Democratic Governor who was supportive of recently-elected President Bill Clinton's plans for national health care reform.
		Unstated in Governor McWherter's formal proposal is a fourth assumption, which is that health care providers are a group of self-interested, greedy pigs who cheerfully overcharge their clients so as to maintain extravagant lifestyles.
		McWherter tried to buttress his case by pointing out that Medicaid costs had been increasing far beyond the rate of inflation, with the none-too-subtle implication that physicians were to blame.
	www.nightowl.net /~mbooker/tenncare.htm (3697 words)

	News and Events
		JOHNSON CITY — Thirty years ago, Ned McWherter was Speaker of the House for the Tennessee General Assembly and was instrumental in helping override the gubernatorial veto to ensure the creation of the College of Medicine at East Tennessee State University.
		Franks honored McWherter for his “deciding” vote in 1974 when the Tennessee General Assembly overrode a veto from then Tennessee Gov. Winfield Dunn, who opposed the creation of a medical school in East Tennessee.
		McWherter was born to sharecropper parents in 1930 at the height of the Great Depression.
	www.etsu.edu /calendars/calendars_news.asp?txtCategory=8&EventID=2898 (374 words)

	news (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		In speaking of the move, Dr. Zuker commented, “Lambuth is establishing this scholarship in perpetuity in the name of Governor McWherter in recognition of his generosity, service to the people of the State of Tennessee, and his generous service and leadership as a Lambuth University Trustee.
		Governor Ned Ray McWherter is a native of Weakley County and a current resident of Dresden, Tennessee.
		In addition to his role on the Lambuth Board of Trustees, Governor McWherter serves on the boards of such other organizations as Coca-Cola Bottling Company Consolidated, Centennial Medical Center of Weakley County Bank in Dresden, Tennessee, and is a member of the Board of Governors for the United States Postal Service.
	www.lambuth.edu /news/PressReleases05/McWherter.html (324 words)

	McWherter, TennCare author, still holds hope for program - Sunday, 11/14/04 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		McWherter was House speaker and later governor when Bonnyman was at odds with the state before, suing in 1980 over its archaic prison system.
		Bredesen and McWherter do agree on one thing, though: that ''I'd rather have half a loaf of bread than no bread.'' Both men used the expression to say they prefer keeping everyone enrolled with limited benefits than the alternate of withdrawing all benefits from 430,000 people.
		McWherter won't give way to pessimism even if no compromise is reached in the short term, saying legislative action or other developments could reverse the wind-down during the next six months.
	tennessean.com /government/archives/04/11/61507334.shtml?Element_ID=61507334 (1649 words)

	College Pays - We Can Get You There.
		Ned McWherter Scholars Program: (Promulgated Rules) (Application in Adobe pdf format.
		The Ned McWherter Scholars Program is intended to encourage academically superior Tennessee high school graduates to attend college in Tennessee.
		Recent Tennessee high school seniors starting their last semester in high school who have at least a 3.5 unweighted cumulative grade point average and scored a minimum composite score of 29 on the ACT or the SAT equivalent, are eligible to apply.
	www.collegepaystn.com /mon_college/ned_mc_shcolar.htm (254 words)

	Training and Workshops
		Tuesday, April 25, 2006: Meeting was held in the Downstairs Conference Room of Building 52 (Ned A. McWherter Hall) on Fifth Street of the VA Campus at 6:30 pm.
		Tuesday, March 28, 2006: Meeting was held in the Downstairs Conference Room of Building 52 (Ned A. McWherter Hall) on Fifth Street of the VA Campus at 6:30 pm.
		Tuesday, January 24, 2006: Meeting was held in the Downstairs Conference Room of Building 52 (Ned A. McWherter Hall) on Fifth Street of the VA Campus at 6:30 pm.
	www.etsu.edu /coe/excellence/statecustody/Training.htm (797 words)

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		Last Updated: 11/30/2004 10:52:03 AM Former Governor Ned McWherter says he doesn't want to be an official mediator in TennCare negotiations.
		And while McWherter launched the program in the 1990s, he told Nashville television station WTVF yesterday afternoon that he plans to stay at his home and farm in Weakley County.
		McWherter also said no one has contacted him about joining the negotiations since the judge's idea.
	www.wbir.com /printfullstory.aspx?storyid=21335 (156 words)

	The Pacer - Governor McWherter receives honor (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Former Tennessee Gov. Ned Ray McWherter accepted the first honorary degree awarded by the University of Tennessee at Martin during fall commencement at 2 p.m.
		McWherter, the state's 46th chief executive, received the first Doctorate of Leadership that was approved by the University of Tennessee Board of Trustees earlier this year.
		McWherter created a charitable remainder trust to UT Martin in memory of his mother, Lucille McWherter.
	pacer.utm.edu /1447.htm (426 words)

	MTSU Audio Clips, September 19, 2004
		McWherter distances himself from issues of politics and race, saying he is sure President Bush is a “man of God” who wants to help all the hurricane-stricken people.
		Former Governor Ned McWherter was presented with the Jennings A. Jones Champion of Free Enterprise Award by the College of Business.
		McWherter calls on Democrats and Republicans to put politics aside and work together to restore economic health to coastal Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama.
	www.mtsu.edu /~proffice/audio/2005/Sept19/091905audio_clips.html (701 words)

	EARLY VOTING COST GORE STATE: MCWHERTER [Free Republic]
		McWherter, a popular two-term governor, Tennessee's Democratic elder statesman, longtime Gore family friend and former adviser to President Clinton, said the vice president could have learned from his boss.
		McWherter said he saw how Tennesseans felt about Gore's absence during the first stop of a bus tour on the vice president's behalf in Johnson County, a very Republican area of East Tennessee.
		McWherter, governor from 1987 to 1995, was quick to add that he doesn't blame Tennessee Democrats.
	www.freerepublic.com /forum/a3a4ca9a77ef6.htm (2843 words)

	7/12/2002 - Charles Smith Draws Praise From Ned McWherter - Breaking News - Chattanoogan.com
		McWherter also used the occasion to reminisce about Smith writing his (McWherter’s) first speech he gave in his first bid for Governor.
		McWherter added, it was written by Charles Smith “on this campus” on a yellow legal pad.
		In addition, McWherter noted that Smith was one of the first three Commissioners he appointed when he took office in January 1986.
	www.chattanoogan.com /articles/article_23999.asp (429 words)

	Instapundit.com -
		He had made a 10-day trip through the state, mostly in East Tennessee, as a Gore surrogate campaigner and returned, as instructed, to give a report to the campaign's national headquarters in Nashville.
		His travels, McWherter says, left him with a sense that things were going badly for Gore in his home state.
		Ned Ray McWherter, a former Governor and State House Speaker, is probably the shrewdest politician Tennessee has ever produced.
	www.instapundit.com /archives/014151.php (485 words)

	City of Dresden, Tennessee - Library
		Former governor Ned R. McWherter originated the idea for a new Library facility to be located next door to hiss home on Linden Street in 1997.
		The Ned R. McWherter/ Weakley County Library was opened on December 1, 1997.
		On November 19, 1999 then Ned R. McWherter room was dedicated and the library held its Grand Opening.
	www.cityofdresden.com /library.html (362 words)

	Tennessee History for Kids
		Former Governor McWherter is proud of some of the things that he was able to accomplish, but he is most proud of a proposal that dramatically increased the amount of money that the state was spending in education, especially in rural parts of the state.
		If you are going to a school in a sparsely populated part of the state, you can thank Governor McWherter for the fact that there aren’t nearly as many students in your class than there would have been before his Basic Education Program passed in 1991.
		McWherter also has the distinction of quite possibly being the most down to earth
	www.tnhistoryforkids.org /local/weakley (197 words)

	Jackson Centre
		Officially it is known as the Ned R. McWherter West Tennessee Cultural Arts Center.
		Locals simply call it "The Ned," and know it is the place to go to see the finest musical and stage acts available in an intimate, high-technology equipped performing arts theatre.
		The Ned R. McWherter West Tennessee Cultural Arts Center is located in downtown Jackson at 314 East Main Street.
	www.jacksoncentre.com /NedMain.htm (237 words)

	Clinton predicts U.S. will offer a program similar to TennCare - Sunday, 12/26/04 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Clinton, who left the presidency in 2001, spoke highly of former Tennessee Gov. Ned McWherter, the Dresden Democrat who created TennCare while serving as the state's chief executive from 1987 to 1995.
		''Ned Ray did this at a time when we were making real efforts to control the costs of health care.
		McWherter — who is now out of elected office and focuses on his grandchildren, his farm and his distributing firm — downplays his role in TennCare today, saying, ''I have no authority at all in making decisions.''
	www.tennessean.com /government/archives/04/12/63341653.shtml?Element_ID=63341653 (767 words)

	How Tennessee Cooked Gore (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		A longtime Gore family friend, McWherter is a popular two-term governor and Tennessee Democrats' elder statesman.
		Democrats, McWherter complained, waited until the final two days of early voting to run broadcast and telephone commercials featuring him and Tennessee Titans star running back Eddie George.
		McWherter said the vice president should have ended the contest for Florida's key 25 electoral votes far sooner.
	www.newsmax.com /archives/articles/2000/12/29/94926.shtml (636 words)

	KnoxNews: Columnists
		Dunn is a great guy, but some of those people (in the Tri-Cities area) have long memories," he writes, envisioning former Gov. Ned McWherter campaigning on behalf of Democrats in the Northeast.
		McWherter, then speaker of the state House, led a successful override of Dunn's veto.
		In the general election, McWherter carried the traditionally Republican counties of Carter, Sullivan and Washington.
	www.knoxnews.com /kns/opinion_columnists/article/0,1406,KNS_364_4777649,00.html (808 words)

	The Community Foundation: News & Publications (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Former Governor Ned R. McWherter, who was given the Joe Kraft Humanitarian Award this week by The Community Foundation, used the proceeds he received from the award to establish the new fund, which The Community Foundation also will administer.
		Those who receive the annual Joe Kraft Humanitarian Award have the opportunity to do as McWherter has done and designate their portion of the Kraft Fund to the cause of their choice.
		“Ned McWherter has already done so very much for people in need throughout this community.
	www.cfmt.org /news/mcwherter.htm (559 words)

	Online NewsHour: Al Gore's Political Roots- August 17, 2000
		GWEN IFILL: To help us with that, I'm joined by Ned McWherter, governor of Tennessee from 1987 to 1995; Peter Knight, longtime aide to Congressman and Senator Al Gore-- he was campaign manager of the Clinton/gore reelection in 1996; and Bill Turque of "Newsweek" magazine-- he's author of the biography, "Inventing Al Gore."
		NED McWHERTER: I think we know him well in Tennessee.
		NED McWHERTER: Well, I am looking forward to trying to do what I can to help him in Tennessee.
	www.pbs.org /newshour/election2000/demconvention/gorepanel_8-17a.html (2033 words)

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