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

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

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As a young adult, Gore served as an Army correspondent in Vietnam, and later an investigative reporter with the Nashville Tennessean.

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But, the recent article that got my attention was from The Tennessean about a food basket survey that they did earlier this month.

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You can read the article about it from The Tennessean here, which includes pictures of Reese and her father in the courthouse.

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Byrn, a former food editor for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution baked up the idea for the book while writing an article for The Tennessean newspaper.

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Specialist Frederick Greene was a Tennessean who wanted to join the Army for a long time, and did so in 2008, with the support of his family.

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New York didn't exactly give the Tennessean a warm welcome.

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The case of Ms. Skipper, the Tennessean who contracted TB while volunteering in a small hospital in South Africa, shows how difficult it is to keep the disease outside U.S. borders.

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Snedeker, the top putter on the PGA Tour last year, is a Tennessean, but his grandmother runs a golf course in Missouri and gets credit for putting clubs in his hands when he was a youngster.

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Robert Bradley Martin, an affable Tennessean, does.

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