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  Priest, J. Percy
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AffiliationDemocratic   
NameJ. Percy Priest
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Nashville, Tennessee , United States
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Born April 01, 1900
Died October 12, 1956 (56 years)
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Infoa Representative from Tennessee; born in Carters Creek, Maury County, Tenn., April 1, 1900; attended the public schools of Maury County, Tenn., Central High School, Columbia, Tenn., State Teachers’ College, Murfreesboro, Tenn., George Peabody College for Teachers, Nashville, Tenn., and the University of Tennessee at Knoxville; taught school in Culleoka, Tenn., 1920-1926; member of the editorial staff of the Nashville Tennessean 1926-1940; elected as an Independent Democrat to the Seventy-seventh Congress and reelected as a Democrat to the seven succeeding Congresses and had been renominated in the 1956 primary election; served from January 3, 1941, until his death in Nashville, Tenn., October 12, 1956; majority whip (Eighty-first and Eighty-second Congresses); chairman, Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce (Eighty-fourth Congress); interment in Woodlawn Memorial Park.


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  08/02/1956 TN District 5 - D Primary Won 68.10% (+36.21%)
  11/02/1954 TN District 5 Won 90.76% (+81.52%)
  11/04/1952 TN District 5 Won 67.48% (+34.97%)
  08/07/1952 TN District 5 - D Primary Won 46.45% (+29.60%)
  11/07/1950 TN District 6 Won 65.94% (+31.89%)
  08/03/1950 TN District 6 - D Primary Won 66.28% (+36.84%)
  11/02/1948 TN District 6 Won 81.43% (+64.40%)
  11/05/1946 TN District 6 Won 77.08% (+54.15%)
  11/07/1944 TN District 6 Won 97.01% (+94.03%)
  11/03/1942 TN District 6 Won 100.00% (+100.00%)
  11/05/1940 TN District 5 Won 50.18% (+7.42%)
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