* Tennessee's Partner ( 1955 )

Tennessee's Partner ( 1955 ) with John Payne and Ronald Reagan was based on a story of the same name.

Paddy Chayefsky's treatment of the film version of Paint Your Wagon seems to borrow from " Tennessee's Partner ": two close friends — one named " Pardner "— share the same woman.

Tennessee's Partner ( 1955 ) is a Western film starring Ronald Reagan in what Peter Bogdanovich calls his " most likeable performance.

Later in his career Payne changed his image and began playing tough-guy roles in Hollywood films noir and Westerns including Kansas City Confidential ( 1952 ), 99 River Street ( 1953 ), Silver Lode ( 1954 ), Tennessee's Partner ( 1955 ) and Slightly Scarlet ( 1956 ).

* Tennessee's Partner ( 1955 )

Memphis is the youngest of Tennessee's major cities.

* The Sam Houston Schoolhouse in Maryville, Tennessee, is Tennessee's oldest schoolhouse.

Jonesborough, the county seat of Washington County, is Tennessee's oldest town.

The county is traditionally Democrat and is part of Tennessee's 8th congressional district represented by Blue Dog Democrat John S. Tanner.

The county is historically Republican and is located within Tennessee's 1st congressional district, which has not been represented by a Democrat in over 120 years.

As such it is part of Tennessee's 8th congressional district, which is represented by Blue Dog Democrat John S. Tanner.

Its county seat is Rogersville, Tennessee's second-oldest town.

Greene County is the home of the oldest college in Tennessee ( Tusculum College ), Tennessee's oldest Methodist congregation ( the Ebenezer Methodist Church, near Chuckey ), and Tennessee's second oldest continuously cultivated farm ( Elmwood Farm, part of the Earnest Farms Historic District ).

Franklin is one of Tennessee's southern tier of counties and abuts the Alabama border.

The Milan Endowment for Growth in Academics ( MEGA ), is Tennessee's first private community financial endowment for public education.

Red Boiling Springs is also home to Tennessee's only motorcycle museum, Cyclemos, which holds an annual Show and Old School Swap Meet that draws thousands of visitors and bikes.

Columbia is also home to Tennessee's first two-year college, Columbia State Community College, that was established in 1966.

It is Tennessee's oldest town.

Brentwood is Tennessee's best educated city, proportionately, with 98. 4 % of adult residents ( 25 and older ) holding a high school diploma, and 68. 4 % of adults possessing a bachelor's degree or higher ( 2010 Census ).

In 1924, the General Shoe Corporation was established there, which would eventually grow into Genesco Inc., a diversified apparel firm which is Tennessee's oldest listed firm on the New York Stock Exchange.

The University of Tennessee's Forensic Anthropology Facility is a body farm established in 1981 to study human putrefaction.

Tennessee's Youth in Government program is the second largest in the nation, with approximately 3500 participating in Youth In Government conferences and Model United Nations conferences conducted by the YMCA Center for Civic Engagement in Nashville.

The final part of the Tennessee's run is in Kentucky, where it separates the Jackson Purchase from the rest of the state.

The story of Tennessee's contribution to American music is essentially the story of three cities: Nashville, Memphis, and Bristol.

The Charlie Daniels Band is closely associated with Tennessee's contributions to the southern rock genre, and with the Volunteer Jam, an annual rock festival first held in Nashville in 1974.

West Tennessee's population was about 26. 4 percent of the state's total, and its land area is about 25. 8 percent of the state's land area.

Tennessee's defense was also extremely effective.

The song was a collaboration between two of Tennessee's most successful rap grond MJG also head their own record labels.

Tennessee's highest mountain, also partly in North Carolina, was named Clingman's Dome in his honor.

US 31 and I-65 also share the roadway for from mile marker 354 in Athens, Alabama, to Tennessee's mile marker 1 in Ardmore.

The 1998 championship was Tennessee's first ever undefeated season at 39 – 0 and also set an NCAA record for the most wins ever in a season.

" During the game, Jackson also verbally recognized that John Ward, Tennessee's long-time radio sportscaster, was also broadcasting his last football game for the Vols.

In addition to its long-term work to modernize Tennessee's tax system, TFT has also worked on other initiatives that fit within its mission.

He was reelected fairly handily in the Republican landslide year of 1972 ( in which President Richard Nixon won all but five of Tennessee's 95 counties ), during which he was also a delegate to the Republican National Convention, but in 1974, he was defeated for reelection by moderate Democrat Marilyn Lloyd.

Given Nexstar's termination of the Fox affiliations of several of its stations during the past two years, it is ironic that KLRT is one of two Fox affiliates that are being picked up by either Nexstar or Mission ; the other is WJKT in Jackson, Tennessee ( although that station is controlled by and based out of Memphis, Tennessee's ABC affiliate WPTY-TV, which is also being sold to Nexstar ).

Tennessee's governor, Phil Bredesen, has also lent his support and pledged forty-one million dollars in state funds for the move.

According to Memphis, Tennessee's The Commercial Appeal newspaper, one manatee was spotted in the Wolf River harbor near the Mississippi River in downtown Memphis, Tennessee, on October 23, 2006, though it was later found dead ten miles downriver in McKellar Lake.

Features the work of one of the nation's oldest operating printing shops — Nashville, Tennessee's Hatch Show Print — the exhibition highlights the uniquely American posters produced to advertise everything from vaudeville shows, state fairs and stock car races to the Grand Ole Opry, Elvis Presley and Herbie Hancock.

Because of its proximity atop Signal Mountain, one particular high point in the town of Walden contains an antenna farm, with the transmitter sites of two of Chattanooga, Tennessee's television stations, WRCB-TV, Channel 3 and WTVC-TV, Channel 9.

On September 21, 1807, Kingston was Tennessee's state capital for one day.

He was selected as one of Tennessee's initial U. S. senators in 1796.

Tourism and recreational industries account for just under 10 % of East Tennessee's workforce, the primary attractions being the Great Smoky Mountains National Park ( 9 million visitors per year ), the Tennessee Aquarium in Chattanooga ( one million visitors per year ), and historical sites such as the Museum of Appalachia and Rugby.

In the 2004 presidential election, he served as one of Tennessee's 11 presidential electors, casting his ballot for George W. Bush.

Though he later joined the Democratic Party, Jones's speaking skills and campaign style helped to solidify Tennessee's Whigs as one of the strongest Whig movements in the South.

The Collins drains the Savage Gulf, a State Natural Area administered by the Department of Conservation and generally regarded as one of Tennessee's finest wilderness areas.

Previously, no one had served more than three consecutive terms as Speaker of the Senate since Tennessee's current constitution was adopted in 1870.

1887 ), a Romanesque Revival-style home now in use as a sensory teaching and learning center and the visual communications department, is one of a handful of remaining examples of the work of H. C. Thompson, arguably Tennessee's most celebrated native architect.

A native of Franklin, Tennessee, Keith's career began in 1987, when he worked as a student for the University of Tennessee's Vol Radio Network, one year after graduating from Franklin's Battle Ground Academy.

He is considered by many to be one of Tennessee's greatest composers and musicians.

Despite Tennessee's Senator Al Gore being elected Vice President as Bill Clinton's running mate, the Clinton-Gore Democratic ticket won the 3rd District by only 39 votes out of 225, 000 cast, one of their worst performances in the state.

In 1929 Lea was nominated for appointment by governor of Tennessee Henry H. Horton to Tennessee's other Senate seat, vacated by the death of Senator Lawrence D. Tyson who had been one of Lea's colleagues in the U. S. 30th Division during World War I. Lea, however, declined this appointment, choosing instead to enter the banking and real estate businesses in an era when the speculative nature of practices in those industries was about to contribute to the Great Depression.

The song, which is a city-dweller's lamentation over the loss of a simpler and freer existence in the hills of Tennessee, is one of Tennessee's eight official state songs and has been recorded by dozens of artists from multiple musical genres worldwide since its publication.

In 1972, the University of Tennessee's Pride of the Southland Band first played the song as part of one of its drills, the idea and arrangement being primarily the work of band arranger Barry MacDonald.

WKNO began broadcasting on June 25, 1956 as Tennessee's first public television outlet and is one of several non-commercial stations in the U. S. not operated by a governmental entity that are still in continuous operation.

Sam Phillips, of Memphis, Tennessee's Sun Records, was the one who found such a performer, in Elvis Presley, who became one of the best-selling musicians in history, and brought rock and roll to audiences across the world.