With growing tension between the states of the North and those of the South over the issue of slavery, many Southern states considered the 1860 election of emancipation advocate Abraham Lincoln as president to be their signal to secede from the United States; initially, though, the majority of ...
Analysis: Tennessee as a likely swing state in the presidential electionMADELEINE BRAND
Although slaves were numerous in W Tennessee, and to a lesser extent in Middle Tennessee, and free blacks were subjected to a series of discriminatory regulations, the state was pro-Union; it voted in the presidential election of 1860 for its own John Bell, candidate of the moderateConstitution...
Kamala Harris Concedes the Election: ‘We Must Accept the Results’ Vice President Kamala Harris on Wednesday afternoon conceding defeat in the presidential election to now-President-elect Donald Trump, delivering remarks at Howard University.
part of the “Lincoln Project of Tennessee” announced on Wednesday, recently made two $1,000 donations to the presidential campaign of Nikki Haley, the former Ambassador to the United Nations who reportedly courted Democrats in her ill-fated primary campaign against former President Donald Trump. ...
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Tennessee State University announced on Wednesday that it will begin offering an online app design and coding class in two African countries this fall.
Darrell Lane Castle (born October 11, 1948) is an American politician and attorney from Memphis, Tennessee. He was the Constitution Party's nominee for Vice President of the United States in the 2008 presidential election and for President in the 2016 presidential election. As the presidential no...
Stand for Children, an education advocacy organization, found that out the hard way Thursday night. After spending a small fortune, all four candidates it backed in the Metro school board election and a handful of state GOP primary candidates lost their races. ...
Pearson cruised to an easy win over nine other candidates in the January special election for House District 86 following longtime Rep. Barbara Cooper’s death. The district runs from southwest Memphis north to the Millington area. Jones had a tougher fight in his 2022 primary, beating Nashville...
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