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The Senate shares these powers with the Tennessee House of Representatives. The Senate alone has the power to host impeachment proceeding and remove impeached members of office with a 2/3 majority. The Tennessee Senate, according to the state constitution of 1870, is composed of 33 members, one-third the size of the Tennessee House of ...
Wilder was re-elected to the position even after Tennessee Republicans re-took the state senate in the 2004 election. However, in January 2007, after Republicans gained additional seats in the 2006 General Assembly elections, the Senate elected Republican Ron Ramsey (from East Tennessee) to the office of lieutenant governor. The current ...
Watson was first elected as a TN state senator in 2006 for the 105th Tennessee General Assembly, having previously served as a state representative during the 104th General Assembly. He represents the 11th district, which encompasses part of Hamilton County. [1] From July 2011 until January 2017, he was Speaker pro tempore in the Tennessee ...
Chaplain of the Senate. Annual Salary: $160,787. ... Senator. Annual Salary: $174,000. Each state elects two U.S. Senators to represent it in the upper chamber, each for a six-year term. Direct ...
Brent Taylor (Memphis-R) is a Republican Tennessee State Senator representing District 31.He assumed office on November 8, 2022 and his term ends on November 3, 2026. He replaced Brian Kelsey who pled guilty to campaign finance charges and did not seek reelection.
Even-numbered state Senate districts are up for election in Tennessee in 2024. Senators serve four-year terms in the General Assembly.
He is a senior partner and co-founder of the Robertson Overbey law firm and has served as an adjunct faculty member at the University of Tennessee College of Law. Prior to becoming a state senator, Overbey served in the Tennessee House of Representatives from 2000 to 2008. [4]
November 2020 saw the election of first openly LGBT people ever to hold seats in Tennessee's state house of representatives, [24] Democrat Torrey Harris and Republican Eddie Mannis. [25] Before November 3, 2020, Tennessee was one of just five states in the nation (others being Alaska, Delaware, Louisiana and Mississippi) to have never elected ...