Background
Jim Summerville was born on October 27 in Dickson, Tennessee.
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- Educating Black Doctors: A History of Meharry Medical College (Alabama, 1983)The Carmack-Cooper Shooting: Tennessee Politics Turns Violent (McFarland, 1994)Southern Epic: Nashville Through 200 Years (Hallmark, 1996)With Kennedy and Other Stories (Xlibris, 1998)Nashville Medicine: A History (Association Publishing, 1999)Contributing writerAmerican National (Oxford, 1999)Encyclopedia of Local History (Altamira, 2000)Historical Dictionary of the Gilded Age (ME Sharpe, 2003).
Jim Summerville
Edit Profilepolitician member of the Tennessee State Senate
James M. "Jim" Summerville is an Independent member of the Tennessee Senate for the 25th district, encompassing after the 2012 redistricting: Cheatham County, Dickson County, Hickman County, Humphreys County, and Robertson County; and Dickson County, Giles County, Hickman County, Humphreys County, Lawrence County, and Lewis County before the 2012 redistricting.
Education
University of Iowa; Vanderbilt University. University of Tennessee.
Career
He received a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from the University of Tennessee in 1969, an Master of Arts in English Literature from the University of Iowa in 1972, and an Master of Arts in American History from Vanderbilt University in 1983. He teaches as an adjunct instructor in the Department of Languages and Literature at Austin Peay State University. Elected as a Republican, he resigned his membership in the Republican Caucus after losing in a primary in August 2014.
He supported Rick Perry for Republican primary of the presidential election of 2012.
He was the lead volunteer for the restoration of the Battle of Nashville Monument. In September 2014, Summerville was arrested for public intoxication.
The next month, he was arrested for stalking and assault.
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Educating Black Doctors: A History of Meharry Medical College (Alabama, 1983)The Carmack-Cooper Shooting: Tennessee Politics Turns Violent (McFarland, 1994)Southern Epic: Nashville Through 200 Years (Hallmark, 1996)With Kennedy and Other Stories (Xlibris, 1998)Nashville Medicine: A History (Association Publishing, 1999)Contributing writerAmerican National (Oxford, 1999)Encyclopedia of Local History (Altamira, 2000)Historical Dictionary of the Gilded Age (ME Sharpe, 2003).
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Membership
In a letter he sent to the Republican Caucus Chairman, Summerville said he would be serving as an independent member of the Senate for the remainder of his term. He is a member of the National Association of Scholars and the Tennessee Eagle Forum.
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Republican party