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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—TennesseeHarlan MATHEWS
(1927- )
Senate Years of Service:
1993-1994Party: DemocratMATHEWS, Harlan, a Senator
from Tennessee; born in Sumiton, Walker County, Ala., January 17,
1927; attended the Alabama public schools; graduated, Jacksonville
State College, Jacksonville, Ala., 1949; received graduate degree
from Vanderbilt University 1950; received law degree from Nashville
School of Law 1962; served on planning staff of Tennessee Governor
Gordon Browning 1950-1954, budget staff of Governor Frank Clement
1954-1961; commissioner, Tennessee Department of Finance and
Administration 1961-1971; senior vice president, Amcon
International, Inc., Memphis 1971-1973; legislative assistant to
state Comptroller William Snodgrass 1973-1974; elected state
treasurer in 1974 and served until January, 1987; deputy to
Governor Ned McWherter and secretary of state cabinet 1987-1993;
appointed on January 2, 1993, as a Democrat to the United States
Senate to fill the seat left vacant by the resignation of Albert
Arnold Gore, Jr., and served until December 1, 1994, when a duly
elected successor qualified; not a candidate for election to the
unexpired portion of the term; resumed the practice of law in
Nashville, Tenn.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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