Mary Marsha Blackburn is an American politician and businesswoman serving as the senior United States senator from Tennessee. Blackburn was first elected to the Senate in 2018. A member of the Republican Party, Blackburn was a state senator from 1999 to 2003 and represented Tennessee's 7th congressional district in the United States House of Representatives from 2003 to 2019, during which time the National Journal rated her among the House's most conservative members.
Official portrait, 2019
Marsha Wedgeworth as a junior at Northeast Jones High School in 1969
Blackburn and Donald Rumsfeld at Fort Campbell in 2004
Blackburn with former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in 2007
Tennessee's 7th congressional district
The 7th congressional district of Tennessee is a congressional district located in parts of Middle and West Tennessee. It has been represented by Republican Mark E. Green since January 2019. The seventh district has significant suburban and rural areas. Although most of the area is rural, more than half of the district's vote is cast in either Montgomery County (Clarksville) or Williamson County.
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