Lamar Alexander, American politician, US Senator, Governor of Tennessee

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Lamar Alexander, American politician, US Senator, Governor of Tennessee. Member of the Republican Party. Signed 3" x 5" card with Tennessee Statehood stamp.
Andrew Lamar Alexander, Jr.
(born July 3, 1940) is an American politician and the current
senior
United States senator
from
Tennessee
having served since 2003. A member of the
Republican Party
, Alexander previously served as the conference chair of the Republican Party in the US Senate from 2007 to 2012.
Born in
Maryville, Tennessee
, Alexander is a graduate of
Vanderbilt University
and
New York University School of Law
. He worked as a legislative assistant to Senator
Howard Baker
and as an assistant in the
Nixon Administration
in the late 1960s. He won the Republican nomination for the 1974 Tennessee gubernatorial election but was defeated by Congressman
Ray Blanton
in the general election.
In 1978, Alexander defeated
Knoxville
Democrat
Jake Butcher
for the governorship, serving as the
45th
Governor of Tennessee
from 1979 to 1987. In 1991, he was nominated by
President
George H. W. Bush
to serve as
Secretary of Education
, from 1991 to 1993. Alexander ran unsuccessfully for the Republican presidential nomination in
1996
and
2000
.
He defeated
Democratic
Congressman
Bob Clement
to replace outgoing Senator
Fred Thompson
in
2002
and won reelection in
2008
. Alexander won his third term in 2014.
This item is from the collection originally formed over a 50 year period by Dr. Sam Loebenstein of
Kansas City
,
Missouri
and continued by his grandson, Michael J. Gerstley, of
San Jose
,
California
with over 7,500 autographs.
.
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