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Bill Dries On Demand: Just Posted

The colorful history of Tennessee’s ouster law
 
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Here’s a history of previous local ouster cases including the one that ousted E.H. Crump from the mayor’s office in 1916, a Shelby County Sheriff shortly after that and a Shelby County commissioner in the 1960s. 

 
 

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Bill Dries

Bill Dries

Reporter

Bill Dries covers city and county government and politics. He is a native Memphian and has been a reporter for more than 40 years.

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