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handle is hein.ssl/sstn0271 and id is 1 raw text is: ,&tate of enne55ee HOUSE JOINT RESOLUTION NO. 2 By Representative Halford A RESOLUTION to honor the legacy of the late Senator Mildred Jolly Lashlee, the first female to win regular election to the Tennessee State Senate. WHEREAS, this General Assembly wishes to honor the enduring legacy of one of this state's finest public servants, the late Senator Mildred Louella Jolly Lashlee of Carroll County; and WHEREAS, a member of a distinguished political family with deep roots, Mildred Jolly Lashlee became the first woman elected in a regular general election to the Tennessee Senate in November 1944; and WHEREAS, she had been representing the 26th Senate District since July of 1944, when she was appointed to fill the remainder of her late husband's first term in the Senate, Senator John Wyly Lashlee having passed away on July 9, 1944; and WHEREAS, she then qualified for the seat without opposition in place of her late husband and was elected to the 74th General Assembly to ably represent the citizens of Benton, Decatur, Hardeman, Hardin, and McNairy counties, which comprised the 26th Senate District; and WHEREAS, Mildred Jolly Lashlee's husband was a first cousin of the late Governor Frank Clement; and his father, O.P. Lashlee; grandfather; great-great-uncle; and numerous other ancestors served in elected county and state offices; and WHEREAS, Mrs. Lashlee also gave birth to another generation of Lashlee public servants; her elder son, John W. Lashlee II, served as a Metro Nashville Councilman and Davidson County Criminal Court Clerk, and her younger son, Frank Priestley Lashlee, served eighteen years combined in the Senate and House of Representatives of the Tennessee General Assembly; and WHEREAS, serving in the Senate from 1945 to 1947, Senator Mildred Jolly Lashlee helped lead Tennessee from war back to peace, and she was the first woman in the state's history to serve on the Senate Finance Committee; and WHEREAS, born on April 24, 1906, in Carroll County, Tennessee, Senator Mildred Jolly Lashlee was the daughter of Sheriff John Frank Jolly and Lydia Warbritton Jolly; after attending Columbia College of Dramatic Arts and the Chicago Conservatory of Music, she taught music and dramatic arts at the high school level in Bruceton and Camden; and WHEREAS, after marrying John Wyly Lashlee on December 28, 1925, she helped her husband with the family's livestock and farming operations and ferry service on the Tennessee River; and WHEREAS, active in her community, Senator Lashlee served as Chair of the American Cancer Society county fundraising organization and was a faithful member of the Methodist Church; and WHEREAS, Senator Mildred Jolly Lashlee served as Governor Frank Clement's oratory and grammar coach for his address to the 1956 Democratic National Convention; she was active in politics, in addition to her legislative service, and was a delegate to the Democratic National Convention in 1960; and WHEREAS, after she completed her tenure in the Tennessee Senate, she served as Chief Personnel Interviewer for the Tennessee Department of Employment Security until her passing in 1966; and

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