Judge Ed Bryant

By Kleinheider Posted on December 12, 2008 at 9:25 am

The U.S. Attorney, Congressman and two-time Senate candidate now wears the robes:

The United States District Court for the Western District of Tennessee announced today that Mr. Ed Bryant will be sworn in as a United States Magistrate Judge on Friday, December 12, 2008 at 9:00 a.m. in Jackson, Tennessee.

Judge Bryant received undergraduate and law degrees from the University of Mississippi. Following law school, he served in the U.S. Army as a Captain, JAGC from 1973-1979. Judge Bryant was the United States Attorney for the Western District of Tennessee from 1991-1993, and he has most recently been a partner with the Jackson, Tennessee law firm of Waldrop and Hall P.A.

Magistrate Judge Bryant will be filling the position vacated by Judge S. Thomas Anderson when he was appointed to the District Court bench by President George W. Bush earlier this year. Judge Bryant will serve in the Eastern Division of the District and will have chambers in Jackson, Tennessee.

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Rep. Dan Kuykendall, RIP

By Kleinheider Posted on June 12, 2008 at 12:51 pm

The man who many assumed may very well be the last white man, and who likely will be the last white Republican, to hold Tennessee’s Ninth District Congressional seat has died:

Mr. Kuykendall was one of the architects of the Shelby County Republican Party in the 1960s, the building of which led to the emergence of a highly competitive two-party system across Tennessee.

Shelby County’s conservative Republicans combined with East Tennessee traditional GOP in 1966 to send Howard Baker to Washington as the first popularly elected Republican senator from Tennessee and, four years later, to elect Winfield Dunn as the state’s first GOP governor in 50 years. Dunn was an early ally of Mr. Kuykendall, Memphis lawyer Lewis R. Donelson and others in building the Shelby GOP.

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