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Phil Bredesen

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Philip Norman Bredesen Jr. (born November 21, 1943) is an American politician and businessman who served as the 48th Governor of Tennessee from 2003 to 2011. [1]

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Andrea Conte

Andrea Conte (born February 13, 1941) is the wife of former Tennessee Governor Phil Bredesen, serving as First Lady of Tennessee from 2003 to 2011.

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Bachelor of Arts

A Bachelor of Arts (BA or AB, from the Latin baccalaureus artium or artium baccalaureus) is a bachelor's degree awarded for an undergraduate course or program in either the liberal arts, sciences, or both.

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Barack Obama

Barack Hussein Obama II (born August 4, 1961) is an American politician who served as the 44th President of the United States from January 20, 2009, to January 20, 2017.

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Bill Boner

William Hill Boner (born February 14, 1945) is a Tennessee educator and former Democratic politician.

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Bill Haslam

William Edward Haslam (born August 23, 1958) is an American businessman and politician serving as the 49th and current Governor of Tennessee since 2011.

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Bill Purcell (mayor)

William Paxson Purcell III (born October 25, 1953) was the fifth mayor of the Metropolitan Government of Nashville and Davidson County, elected first in 1999 and reelected to a second term in 2003.

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Bob Clement

Robert Nelson Clement (born September 23, 1943 in Nashville, Tennessee) is a Tennessee politician and a member of the Democratic Party.

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Bob Corker

Robert Phillips Corker Jr. (born August 24, 1952) is an American businessman and politician serving as the junior United States Senator from Tennessee since 2007.

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Bridgestone Arena

Bridgestone Arena (originally Nashville Arena and formerly Gaylord Entertainment Center and Sommet Center) is an all-purpose venue in downtown Nashville, Tennessee, that was completed in 1996, and is the home of the Nashville Predators of the National Hockey League.

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Capital punishment

Capital punishment, also known as the death penalty, is a government-sanctioned practice whereby a person is put to death by the state as a punishment for a crime.

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Chamber of commerce

A chamber of commerce (or board of trade) is a form of business network, for example, a local organization of businesses whose goal is to further the interests of businesses.

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Clandestine chemistry

Clandestine chemistry is chemistry carried out in secret, and particularly in illegal drug laboratories.

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Democratic Party (United States)

The Democratic Party is one of the two major contemporary political parties in the United States, along with the Republican Party (nicknamed the GOP for Grand Old Party).

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Dolly Parton

Dolly Rebecca Parton (born January 19, 1946) is an American singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, record producer, actress, author, businesswoman, and philanthropist, known primarily for her work in country music.

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Don Sundquist

Donald Kenneth Sundquist (born March 15, 1936) is a former American businessman and politician who served as the 47th Governor of Tennessee from 1995 to 2003.

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East Tennessee

East Tennessee comprises approximately the eastern third of the U.S. state of Tennessee, one of the three Grand Divisions of Tennessee defined in state law.

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England

England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom.

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Eugene McCarthy

Eugene Joseph McCarthy (March 29, 1916December 10, 2005) was an American politician, poet, and a long-time Congressman from Minnesota.

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Frank G. Clement

Frank Goad Clement (June 2, 1920 – November 4, 1969) was an American lawyer and politician who served as Governor of Tennessee from 1953 to 1959, and from 1963 to 1967.

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Frist Art Museum

The Frist Art Museum (formerly known as The Frist Center for the Visual Arts) is an art museum in Nashville, Tennessee, housed in the city's historic U.S. Post Office building, which is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

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G.D. Searle, LLC

G.D. Searle, LLC is a wholly owned trademark of Pfizer.

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Governor of Tennessee

The Governor of Tennessee is the head of government of the U.S. state of Tennessee.

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Great Recession

The Great Recession was a period of general economic decline observed in world markets during the late 2000s and early 2010s.

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Harvard University

Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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History of the Houston Oilers

The professional American football team now known as the Tennessee Titans previously played in Houston, Texas as the Houston Oilers from 1960 to 1996.

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Hospital Corporation of America

Hospital Corporation of America (HCA) is an American for-profit operator of health care facilities that was founded in 1968.

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International Paper

The International Paper Company is an American pulp and paper company, the largest such company in the world.

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Itek

Itek Corporation was a United States defense contractor that initially specialized in camera systems for spy satellites and various other reconnaissance systems.

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Jim Bryson (politician)

Jim Bryson (born July 14, 1961) is a Tennessee politician, a former Republican member of the State Senate representing the 23rd District, which encompasses Williamson County and part of Davidson County, and the 2006 Republican nominee for Governor of Tennessee.

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John Jay Hooker

John Jay Hooker, Jr. (August 24, 1930 – January 24, 2016) was an American attorney, entrepreneur, political gadfly and perennial candidate from Nashville, Tennessee, who was the Democratic nominee for Governor of Tennessee in 1970 and 1998.

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John Shelton Wilder

John Shelton Wilder (June 3, 1921 – January 1, 2010) was an American politician who was the 48th Lieutenant Governor of Tennessee for 36 years from January 1971 to January 2007, when he was defeated,, Tennessee Blue Book 2007–2008, page 28 possibly the longest time anyone has served as Lieutenant Governor or a similar position in the history of the United States.

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Kathleen Sebelius

Kathleen Sebelius (née Gilligan; born May 15, 1948) is an American businesswoman and politician who served as the 21st United States Secretary of Health and Human Services from 2009 until 2014.

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Lexington, Massachusetts

Lexington is a town in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States.

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Library

A library is a collection of sources of information and similar resources, made accessible to a defined community for reference or borrowing.

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List of Governors of Tennessee

This is a list of people who have served as Governor of Tennessee.

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List of mayors of Nashville, Tennessee

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London

London is the capital and most populous city of England and the United Kingdom.

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Manchester (village), New York

Manchester is a village located within the Town of Manchester in Ontario County, New York, USA.

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Marc Ambinder

Marc Ambinder (born) is an American journalist and producer.

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Marsha Blackburn

Marsha Blackburn (née Wedgeworth; June 6, 1952) is an American politician and businesswoman.

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Massachusetts Senate

The Massachusetts Senate is the upper house of the Massachusetts General Court, the bicameral state legislature of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

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Medicaid

Medicaid in the United States is a joint federal and state program that helps with medical costs for some people with limited income and resources.

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Methamphetamine

Methamphetamine (contracted from) is a potent central nervous system (CNS) stimulant that is mainly used as a recreational drug and less commonly as a second-line treatment for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and obesity.

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Mike McWherter

Michael Ray McWherter (born 1955) is an American lawyer, businessman and politician from the state of Tennessee.

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Minnesota Timberwolves

The Minnesota Timberwolves (also commonly known as the Wolves) are an American professional basketball team based in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

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Mitch McConnell

Addison Mitchell McConnell Jr. (born February 20, 1942) is an American politician who has served as the senior United States Senator from Kentucky since 1985.

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Modern liberalism in the United States

Modern American liberalism is the dominant version of liberalism in the United States.

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Nashville Predators

The Nashville Predators are a professional ice hockey team based in Nashville, Tennessee.

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Nashville, Tennessee

Nashville is the capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of Tennessee and the seat of Davidson County.

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National Basketball Association

The National Basketball Association (NBA) is a men's professional basketball league in North America; composed of 30 teams (29 in the United States and 1 in Canada).

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National Football League

The National Football League (NFL) is a professional American football league consisting of 32 teams, divided equally between the National Football Conference (NFC) and the American Football Conference (AFC).

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National Hockey League

The National Hockey League (NHL; Ligue nationale de hockey—LNH) is a professional ice hockey league in North America, currently comprising 31 teams: 24 in the United States and 7 in Canada.

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Ned McWherter

Ned Ray McWherter (October 15, 1930April 4, 2011) was an American businessman and politician who served as the 46th Governor of Tennessee, from 1987 to 1995.

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New Democrats

New Democrats, also called centrist Democrats, Clinton Democrats or moderate Democrats, are a centre-right ideological faction within the Democratic Party that emerged after the victory of Republican George H. W. Bush in the 1988 presidential election.

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Nissan Stadium

Nissan Stadium is a multi-purpose stadium in Nashville, Tennessee, United States, owned by the Metropolitan Government of Nashville and Davidson County.

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Northern United States

The Northern United States, commonly referred to as the American North or simply the North, can be a geographic or historical term and definition.

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Oceanport, New Jersey

Oceanport is a borough in Monmouth County, New Jersey, United States.

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Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act

The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, often shortened to the Affordable Care Act (ACA) or nicknamed Obamacare, is a United States federal statute enacted by the 111th United States Congress and signed into law by President Barack Obama on March 23, 2010.

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Presidency of Barack Obama

The presidency of Barack Obama began at noon EST on January 20, 2009, when Barack Obama was inaugurated as 44th President of the United States, and ended on January 20, 2017.

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Primary election

A primary election is the process by which the general public can indicate their preference for a candidate in an upcoming general election or by-election, thus narrowing the field of candidates.

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Republican Party (United States)

The Republican Party, also referred to as the GOP (abbreviation for Grand Old Party), is one of the two major political parties in the United States, the other being its historic rival, the Democratic Party.

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Rochester, New York

Rochester is a city on the southern shore of Lake Ontario in western New York.

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Ron Ramsey

Ronald Lynn Ramsey (born November 20, 1955) is an American auctioneer and politician who served as the 49th Lieutenant Governor of Tennessee and Speaker of the State Senate from 2007 to 2017.

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Ronald MacKenzie

Ronald Conrad MacKenzie is an American attorney and Republican politician who served in the Massachusetts Senate from 1967 to 1977.

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Shortsville, New York

Shortsville is a village in Ontario County, New York, United States.

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Solar power

Solar power is the conversion of energy from sunlight into electricity, either directly using photovoltaics (PV), indirectly using concentrated solar power, or a combination.

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Southeastern United States

The Southeastern United States (Sureste de Estados Unidos, Sud-Est des États-Unis) is the eastern portion of the Southern United States, and the southern portion of the Eastern United States.

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Steve Cohen

Stephen Ira Cohen (born May 24, 1949) is the U.S. Representative for, serving since 2007.

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Stoneman Douglas High School shooting

On February 14, 2018, seventeen students and staff at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida were fatally shot and seventeen others were wounded in a school shooting, making the shooting one of the deadliest school massacres in the United States, surpassing the Columbine High School massacre as the worst high school shooting in the United States.

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TennCare

TennCare is the state Medicaid program in the U.S. state of Tennessee.

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Tennessee Governor's Mansion

The Tennessee Governor's Mansion, also known as the Tennessee Residence, in Oak Hill, Nashville, Tennessee, is the official residence of the Governor of Tennessee and his or her family.

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Tennessee gubernatorial election, 1994

The Tennessee gubernatorial election of 1994 took place on November 8, 1994.

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Tennessee gubernatorial election, 2002

The Tennessee gubernatorial election of 2002 was held on November 5, 2002.

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Tennessee gubernatorial election, 2006

The Tennessee gubernatorial election of 2006 was held on November 7, 2006.

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Tennessee Lottery

The Tennessee Lottery is run by the Tennessee Education Lottery Corporation (TELC), which was created on June 11, 2003 by the Tennessee General Assembly.

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Tennessee Titans

The Tennessee Titans are a professional American football team based in Nashville, Tennessee.

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Tennessee's 5th congressional district

The 5th Congressional District of Tennessee is a congressional district in Middle Tennessee.

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The Atlantic

The Atlantic is an American magazine and multi-platform publisher, founded in 1857 as The Atlantic Monthly in Boston, Massachusetts.

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Tom Daschle

Thomas Andrew Daschle (born December 9, 1947) is a retired American politician and lobbyist who served as a United States Senator from South Dakota from 1987 to 2005.

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Two-round system

The two-round system (also known as the second ballot, runoff voting or ballotage) is a voting method used to elect a single winner, where the voter casts a single vote for their chosen candidate.

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United States Secretary of Health and Human Services

The United States Secretary of Health and Human Services is the head of the United States Department of Health and Human Services, concerned with health matters.

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United States Senate

The United States Senate is the upper chamber of the United States Congress, which along with the United States House of Representatives—the lower chamber—comprise the legislature of the United States.

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United States Senate election in Tennessee, 2018

The 2018 United States Senate election in Tennessee will take place on November 6, 2018, to elect a member of the United States Senate to represent the State of Tennessee, concurrently with other elections to the United States Senate, elections to the United States House of Representatives, and various state and local elections.

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Van Hilleary

William Vanderpool "Van" Hilleary (born June 20, 1959) is a former Republican politician from Tennessee.

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Vice President of the United States

The Vice President of the United States (informally referred to as VPOTUS, or Veep) is a constitutional officer in the legislative branch of the federal government of the United States as the President of the Senate under Article I, Section 3, Clause 4, of the United States Constitution, as well as the second highest executive branch officer, after the President of the United States.

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Vietnam War

The Vietnam War (Chiến tranh Việt Nam), also known as the Second Indochina War, and in Vietnam as the Resistance War Against America (Kháng chiến chống Mỹ) or simply the American War, was a conflict that occurred in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia from 1 November 1955 to the fall of Saigon on 30 April 1975.

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Wheatley, Oxfordshire

Wheatley is a village and civil parish in Oxfordshire, about east of Oxford.

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William N. Morris

William N. "Bill" Morris is a Tennessee politician who served as mayor of Shelby County, which includes Memphis, Tennessee.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phil_Bredesen

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