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Clarksville, Tennessee. Alma mater. Austin Peay State University. Joe Pitts[1] (born August 15, 1958) is an American politician serving as Mayor of Clarksville, Tennessee as well as a former Democratic member of the Tennessee House of Representatives representing District 67 since January 2007.
Joseph Pitts may refer to: Joe Pitts (Pennsylvania politician) (born 1939), U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania. Joe Pitts (Tennessee politician) (born 1958), member of the Tennessee House of Representatives. Joseph Pitts (author) (1663–1735), Englishman who was taken into slavery by Barbary pirates. Category: Human name disambiguation pages.
Joseph Russell Pitts (born October 10, 1939) is a former American politician who served as the U.S. representative for Pennsylvania's 16th congressional district from 1997 to 2017. He is a member of the Republican Party. The district was based in Lancaster and Reading and included much of the Amish country.
The Tennessee House of Representatives requires a two-thirds majority of the total membership to expel another representative. [15] Since the Civil War, ten representatives have been expelled. [16] Six representatives were expelled in 1866 for attempting to prevent passage of the 14th Amendment, which granted citizenship to former slaves. [17]
Future presidents who served as members of the U.S. House of Representatives from Tennessee are: Andrew Jackson (1796–1797, at-large), James K. Polk (1825–1839, 6th and 9th) and Andrew Johnson (1843–1853, 1st) The following is an alphabetical list of members of the United States House of Representatives from the state of Tennessee.
The 2024 Tennessee House of Representatives election will be held on November 5, 2024, to elect 99 seats for the Tennessee House of Representatives. The elections will coincide with the Presidential, U.S. Senate, U.S. House, and State Senate elections. The primary election were held on August 1, 2024. [1]
The 1st district's seat in the U.S. House of Representatives has been held by Republicans since 1881. The district was created in 1805 when the at-large seat was divided among multiple districts. The district's current representative is Republican Diana Harshbarger, who was first elected in 2020 following the retirement of Republican Phil Roe.
These are tables of congressional delegations from Tennessee to the United States House of Representatives and the United States Senate. The current dean of the Tennessee delegation is Senator Marsha Blackburn, having served in Congress continuously since 2003. Blackburn served in the House until 2019, when she assumed her seat in the Senate ...