Current Officeholders ~ Confirmed and Potential Candidates
Welcome to the Candidate List of those seeking election to be Governor of Tennessee. All candidates are listed here. To learn more about the candidates, click their names to visit their campaign websites (where available).
In addition, you can find information on statewide ballot measures on this page.
Last updated: August 4, 2006
Other names that were once in the potential list:
- Jim Boyd
- Withdrew from Governor race, but is still running for state House of Representatives, District 58
- B. C. "Scooter" Clippard, Jr.
- Banking Executive
- Ayers Foundation President
- Bill Frist
- Beth Harwell
- Jim Henry
- 2002 candidate, lost to Van Hilleary in GOP primary
- former State House Republican leader
- Basil Marceaux I
- Mark Norris
- Ron Ramsey
- Fred Thompson
- former U.S. Senator (R-TN)
- Actor
- Zach Wamp
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- MARRIAGE PROTECTION AMENDMENT
- Proposed amendment: "The historical institution and legal contract solemnizing the relationship of one man and one woman shall be the only legally recognized marital contract in this state. Any policy or law or judicial interpretation purporting to define marriage as anything other than the historical institution and legal contract between one man and one woman is contrary to the public policy of this state and shall be void and unenforceable in Tennessee. If another state or foreign jurisdiction issues a license for persons to marry and if such marriage is prohibited in this state by the provisions of this section, then the marriage shall be void and unenforceable in this state."
- Anti site
- PROPERTY TAX RELIEF
- By general law, the legislature may authorize the following program of tax relief:
(a) The legislative body of any county or municipality may provide by
resolution or ordinance that:
(1) Any taxpayer who is sixty-five (65) years of age or older and
who owns residential property as the taxpayer’s principal place of residence
shall pay taxes on such property in an amount not to exceed the maximum
amount of tax on such property imposed at the time the ordinance or
resolution is adopted;
(2) Any taxpayer who reaches the age of sixty-five (65) after the time
the ordinance or resolution is adopted, who owns residential property as the
taxpayer’s principal place of residence, shall thereafter pay taxes on such
property in an amount not to exceed the maximum amount of tax on such
property imposed in the tax year in which such taxpayer reaches age sixty-five
(65); and
(3) Any taxpayer who is sixty-five (65) years of age or older, who
purchases residential property as the taxpayer’s principal place of residence
after the taxpayer’s sixty-fifth birthday, shall pay taxes in an amount not to
exceed the maximum amount of tax imposed on such property in the tax year
in which such property is purchased.
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