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Congressional district. 4th. Website. www.meigscounty.org. Meigs County is a county located in the U.S. state of Tennessee. As of the 2020 census, the population was 12,758. [2] Its county seat is Decatur. [3] It is a component of the Athens, Tennessee Micropolitan Area.
The Battle of Athens (sometimes called the McMinn County War) was a rebellion led by citizens in Athens and Etowah, Tennessee, United States, against the local government in August 1946. The citizens, including some World War II veterans, accused the local officials of predatory policing, police brutality, political corruption, and voter ...
During the 1906 election White was endorsed by the Meigs County Republican Party for a seat in the state house from Meigs and Rhea counties despite him stating that he was not interested in running. John Neal, a member of the Democratic Party who represented the district, sought election to the state senate in the 1908 election.
There are currently nine United States congressional districts in Tennessee based on results from the 2020 United States census. There have been as few as eight and as many as thirteen congressional districts in Tennessee. The 13th district and the 12th district were lost after the 1840 census. The 11th district was lost after the 1850 census ...
The 3rd district is on the dividing line between counties and towns that favored or opposed Southern secession in the Civil War. George Washington Bridges was elected as a Unionist (the name used by a coalition of Republicans, northern Democrats and anti-Confederate Southern Democrats) to the Thirty-seventh Congress, but he was arrested by Confederate troops while en route to Washington, D.C ...
Pearson and Jones won their respective party primaries last month and will be up for re-election Nov. 5. Johnson won the Democratic U.S. senatorial primary and will square off with incumbent GOP ...
Mary Merrill Shadow (July 17, 1925 – January 2, 1992) was an American politician who served in the Tennessee House of Representatives from the 10th floterial district from 1949 to 1953, as a member of the Democratic Party . Shadow was born in Winchester, Tennessee, in 1925 and was educated at Tennessee Wesleyan University, University of ...
According to the state constitution of 1870, this body is to consist of 99 members elected for two-year terms. In every even-numbered year, elections for state representative are conducted simultaneously with the elections for U.S. Representative and other offices; the primary election being held on the first Thursday in August.