Tennessee's 1st congressional district
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The 1st Congressional District of Tennessee is a congressional district in northeast Tennessee. It currently includes all of Carter, Cocke, Greene, Hamblen, Hancock, Hawkins, Johnson, Sevier, Sullivan, Unicoi, and Washington counties and part of Jefferson County. The district is largely coextensive with the Tri-Cities metropolitan area.
Cities in the district include Bristol, Elizabethton, Greeneville, Kingsport, Johnson City, Morristown, and Sevierville.
The 1st is a very safe district for the Republican Party. Republicans have held the district continuously since 1881 and for all but four years since 1859. It was one of only two districts in Tennessee (the other being the neighboring 2nd) whose congressmen did not resign when Tennessee seceded from the Union prior to the Civil War. Republican Bill Jenkins has represented this district since 1997 and has announced that he will retire when his current term ends in 2007.
[edit] Representatives
* Died in office
** Assumed office by special election
*** Retiring at end of current term
Source: Political Graveyard database of Tennessee congressmen
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