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Mark White (Tennessee politician)

American politician

Summary

American politician

Field	Value
image	File:Representative Mark White.jpg
name	Mark White
state_house	Tennessee
district	83rd
term_start	January 12, 2010
predecessor	Brian Kelsey
birth_date
birth_place	Union City, Tennessee, U.S.
party	Republican
education	University of Memphis (BS)
Lipscomb University

Lipscomb University

Mark White (born March 11, 1950, Union City, Tennessee) is an American politician. A Republican, he represents District 83 (encompassing Germantown, Bartlett, Cordova and portions of East Memphis) in the Tennessee House of Representatives.

White was formerly second vice-chairman of the Shelby County Republican Party. He was the Republican nominee for U.S. Congress in Tennessee's 9th congressional district in the 2006 election. White's opponents in the general election were Democrat Steve Cohen and independent Jake Ford. It was White's first bid for elected office. White placed third with 18 percent of the vote, well behind Cohen (60 percent) and Ford (22 percent). This was the worst showing for a Republican in the district since the 1950s.

White supported Rick Perry for Republican primary of the 2012 presidential election.

District 83

In July 2009, Tennessee State Senator Paul Stanley resigned his 31st District seat. This prompted Brian Kelsey, the then-Representative from Tennessee's 83rd State House District, to resign his post in September 2009 to run for the senate seat. A special election was triggered, with the primary to occur on December 1, the same day as the election to fill the Senate seat. Mark White won the primary in a three-candidate field, and went on to face Democrat Guthrie Castle and Independent John Andreucetti in the General Election on January 12, 2010. The final results had White leading by a very comfortable margin in the extremely low turnout election., White was elected to a full term in the seat later in 2010.

In 2023, White supported a resolution to expel three Democratic lawmakers from the legislature for violating decorum rules. The expulsion was widely characterized as unprecedented.

References

[http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2006/pages/results/states/TN/H/09/index.html CNN.com - Elections 2006]
J.R. Lind, 'More Volunteers for Perry', on [[NashvillePost.com]], November 7, 2011 [http://nashvillepost.com/blogs/postpolitics/2011/11/7/more_volunteers_for_perry] {{Webarchive. link. (2013-01-02)
[https://web.archive.org/web/20100413134933/http://tnsos.org/elections/Results/TNHouse83General.php Tennessee Secretary of State: Elections: Election Results]
[http://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=555049 Our Campaigns - TN Senate 31 Special Race - Dec 01, 2009]
"Tennessee's Republican-led House expels 2 Democratic lawmakers over gun reform protest, fails in bid to oust a third".

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