Tennessee is losing a legend. Senator John Wilder, who has served 44 years in the Senate--36 of them as Senate speaker and lieutenant governor--announced he is retiring at the end of the year.

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Tennessee is losing a legend. Senator John Wilder, who has served 44 years in the Senate--36 of them as Senate speaker and lieutenant governor--announced he is retiring at the end of the year. The 86-year-old Wilder's reign was marked by bipartisanship, but he was a strong and single-minded leader when he needed to be. In 1987 and again in 1989, Wilder sidestepped attempts to overthrow him by crafting a...

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