No Nobility In Stability

By Kleinheider Posted on July 11, 2008 at 7:11 am

The Thicket reports that only Tennessee can match New York in stability of leadership in its upper legislative chamber:

The only other chamber we can think of that has had only four top leaders since 1965 is the Tennessee Senate where John Wilder served as lieutenant governor (by virtue of being elected speaker of the Senate, not statewide) for 36 of those years (1971-2007). None of the three other Tennessee lieutenant governors during this period were Jared Maddox (1965-67), Frank Gorrell (1967-71), and Ron Ramsey (2007-) served more than four years, but Wilder’s longevity enables them to match New York.

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