About the only bit of wit and sagacity comes from Davy Crockett (Mr. Thornton), the former Tennessee congressman and legendary frontier personality who against his better judgment drops in to help out the defenders.

(For a more direct line, UK country fans might soon be able to fly non-stop from Stansted to Nashville, if a Tennessee congressman has his way.)

Robert Love Taylor, Tennessee congressman (d. 1912)

Also according to these transcripts, the anti-abortion, pro-family Tennessee congressman pushed his patient and mistress to get an abortion and agreed that his wife should have two.

It was the first time since 1966 that an incumbent Tennessee congressman had lost a primary.

The chairman of the new Medicaid Commission, Don Sundquist, a Republican, was governor from 1995 to 2003 and was a Tennessee congressman for 12 years before that.

Tennessee congressmen encouraged the Air Corps, and an article in the local newspaper at the end of March noted the visits by Army survey teams to the area.

For the 19th-century Tennessee congressman, see William Jay Smith (Tennessee politician)

Henry Watterson, the son of a Tennessee congressman, had written for Harper's Magazine and the New York Times before enlisting in the Confederate Army.

Democrats compare him to Barack Obama, the charismatic United States senator from Illinois, or Harold Ford Jr., the Tennessee congressman.