They volunteered to join Tennessean Andrew Jackson to defend the city of New Orleans,Louisiana, against the British army in the War of Eighteen Twelve.

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Martin is a major backer of fellow Tennessean -- and sometime business partner -- Lamar Alexander.

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The Tennessean reports that a group of teen boys one sixteen-year-old and two seventeen-year-olds started a nude-photo-blackmailing-ring.

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He wound up in Nashville, where he was a reporter for The Tennessean.

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