In 1948 Clintwood, Virginia, held an election for the town’s offices. After the campaigning, the voting, and the vote counting, something unique for it’s time had happened: All of Clintwood’s
Back in the 1940s Roy Acuff was at the top of his game. He was a country music star with such hits as “The Great Speckled Bird” and “The Wabash
In 1886 two brothers from Carter County, Tennessee, ran for governor of the Volunteer State, one a Republican and the other a Democrat. Instead of ripping the family apart, the
Today we tell the story of Judge Alexander Ratliff of Pikeville, Kentucky, who ran for office as both a Democrat and as an Independent, at the same time, gathering enough
Our theme today is “the more things change, the more they stay the same.” You’ll see how that fits in as we tell the story of the contested election for
Tennessee came into the union in 1796, and former Southwest Territory governor William Blount was one of the two first senators appointed from that state. His stay in Washington was