Top Ten East Tennesseans
Posted by R. Neal
The local paper asked readers to vote for the top ten East Tennesseans. They came up with a pretty impressive list. Here are the results:
1. Dolly Parton: "It costs a lot of money to look this cheap!"
2. Sgt. Alvin C. York: Pacifist WWI hero, immortalized by Gary Cooper
3. David Crockett: "Kilt him a b'ar when he was only three", died at the Alamo
4. Pat Summit: Six time national champ Lady Vols basketball coach
5. Sam Houston: First president and then governor of Texas
6. Howard Baker Jr.: "What did the president know and when did he know it?"
7. Alex Haley: Pulitzer Prize winning author of "Roots"
8. Cordell Hull: FDR's Secretary of State, "Father of the United Nations"
9. Andrew Johnson: Lincoln's vice president, first president to be impeached
10. Sequoyah: Invented the Cherokee alphabet, published the first Native-American newspaper
You can see the list here (free registration required), along with a short bio of each.
(Memo to Texas: You're welcome.)
The local paper asked readers to vote for the top ten East Tennesseans. They came up with a pretty impressive list. Here are the results:
1. Dolly Parton: "It costs a lot of money to look this cheap!"
2. Sgt. Alvin C. York: Pacifist WWI hero, immortalized by Gary Cooper
3. David Crockett: "Kilt him a b'ar when he was only three", died at the Alamo
4. Pat Summit: Six time national champ Lady Vols basketball coach
5. Sam Houston: First president and then governor of Texas
6. Howard Baker Jr.: "What did the president know and when did he know it?"
7. Alex Haley: Pulitzer Prize winning author of "Roots"
8. Cordell Hull: FDR's Secretary of State, "Father of the United Nations"
9. Andrew Johnson: Lincoln's vice president, first president to be impeached
10. Sequoyah: Invented the Cherokee alphabet, published the first Native-American newspaper
You can see the list here (free registration required), along with a short bio of each.
(Memo to Texas: You're welcome.)
3 Comments:
Virginia can lay claim to Sam Houston as well... He was born in Timber Ridge about 20 mile south of where I grew up.
I say let Texas have him in any case.
If I'm not mistaken, Cordell Hull was also responsible for the U.S. getting an Income Tax.
You say that like it's a bad thing?
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