Marsha Blackburn is an American politician and businesswoman serving as the senior United States Senator from Tennessee since 2019. Blackburn previously served in the U.S. House for Tennessee’s 7th congressional district from 2003 to 2019. She was also a State Senator from 1999 to 2003. She is the first woman to serve as a stand-in for her husband, Tennessee Governor Phil Bredesen, who is now the governor of the state.
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Marsha Blackburn is an American politician and businesswoman serving as the senior United States Senator from Tennessee since 2019. Blackburn previously served in the U.S. House for Tennessee’s 7th congressional district from 2003 to 2019. She was also a State Senator from 1999 to 2003. Blackburn is a Tea Party Republican who has been described as staunchly conservative. She is the first woman to serve as a stand-in for her husband, Tennessee Governor Phil Bredesen, who is now the governor of the state. Blackburn was born in Laurel, Mississippi, to Mary Jo and Hilman Wedgeworth, who worked in sales and management. Blackburn attended Mississippi State University on a 4-H scholarship, earning a B. S. in home economics in 1974. In 1995, Blackburn was appointed executive director of the Tennessee Film, Entertainment, and Music Commission by Tennessee governor Don Sundquist, and held that post through 1997. In 1998, she was elected to the Tennessee Senate, where she served until 2003 and rose to be minority whip. In 2004, she ran unopposed and was re-elected. In 2006, she successfully ran for a third term in the House of Representatives. Blackburn joined Mitt Romney’s 2008 presidential campaign as a senior advisor. In May 2007, she resigned her position in the Romney campaign and endorsed former U. s. Senator Fred Thompson for president. In 2012, she endorsed former Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum for the GOP presidential nomination. In 2014, she became the first female candidate to run for the presidency of the Republican National Committee.
In 2016, she lost the Republican presidential nomination to Mitt Romney, who was running for re-election as the Republican Party’s presidential candidate. In the general election, Blackburn ran against Democrat Tim Barron and was elected with 70% of the vote. In 2008, 2010, 2012, 2014, and 2016, Blackburn won a fourth term as a member of Congress from Tennessee, but not as a standing-in-for-her husband, her husband. In 2018, Blackburn became the state’s senior senator in January 2021 when Lamar Alexander retired from the Senate. In 2002, Republican Ed Bryant gave up his seat as U.s. Representative from Tennessee’s7th District so that he could run for Senate. Redistricting after the 2000 Census moved Blackburn’s home from the 6th district into the 7th district. The 6th District’s Democratic incumbent congressman, Bart Gordon, had faced three tough races in the 1990s, including a near-defeat in 1994, in part due to the growing Republican trend in Nashville’s suburbs. The three Memphians split the vote in the area, allowing her to win the primary by nearly 20 percentage points. She ran for reelection in 2004, which is unusual for a Republican member of Parliament from a heavily Republican district, even as a freshman member. In 2010, she defeated Democratic nominee Tim Barron, with 70%. She was the fourth woman elected to Congress from the Tennessee 7th District.
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