Ken Yager

Representing nine of the finest counties in East Tennessee and the Upper Cumberland.

Chairman, Tennessee Senate Republican Caucus.

[Ken Yager @YagerTweets]

The get-out-the-vote bus tour was an unqualified success. Kudos to @CSexton25 for organizing. Enjoyed a good visit with @dhfeb and @RepAlexander7 who travelled on the bus.

[Ken Yager @YagerTweets]

Roane Road Supervisor Dennis Ferguson, @myTDOT, Wade Cresswell and I teamed up https://t.co/olMifkdTXW to get needed school zone caution lights installed. Good things happen when people work together. Thanks Pastor Walls and Principal Broscious for bringing it to our attention

[Ken Yager @YagerTweets]

This dynamic duo is good for tennessee and good for the USA I have worked with both and can say that @BrentTaylorTN & Charlie Hatcher care about the people they serve. they are Conservative , decisive and good listeners, too.

[Brent Taylor @BrentTaylorTN]

Brent Taylor + Charlie Hatcher = The Will Co Duo! We are working Early Voting at the Williamson County Election Commission this morning and are getting a GREAT response. Please get out and vote. Early Voting runs through October 29, and Election Day is November 3!

[MLBPA @MLBPA]

Christian Yelich personally invited 98- and 102-year-old WWII veterans Bill Wattleton and Sverre Vinje to Game 1 of the World Series. They were able to meet Christian’s mom Alecia, former Brewer All-Star Chris Capuano, and witness the Brewers win a World Series game in person. Thank you, Christian, for providing this incredible experience for two American heroes. ❤️

@ChristianYelich | @Brewers

[Ken Yager @YagerTweets]

In Roane County dispose of expired or unused meds at Harriman Kroger or Oliver Springs Food City For other county locations check out website below

[Ken Yager @YagerTweets]

I look forward to working with @MarshaBlackburn when she is elected Governor. She will build on the progress Govenors @BillHaslam @GovBillLee have already made and take Tennessee to a new level of prosperity. #Conservative

[National Review @NRO]

The Milwaukee Brewers stole victory out of the Dodgers' grasp like a pack of wily jackals poaching a lion’s kill straight from its mouth. | @EsotericCD

https://t.co/SHCqwps0iy

[Ken Yager @YagerTweets]

Air France est un ajout bienvenu à BNA. Merci de votre confiance dans l’économie florissante du Tennessee. Vous êtes un excellent partenaire. Venez donc nous voir.

[Gov. Bill Lee @GovBillLee]

Tennessee is proud to celebrate Air France’s new nonstop flight between Nashville & Paris, bringing more visitors to the Volunteer State & creating new opportunities for business. 🇫🇷✈️

[Ken Yager @YagerTweets]

Whatever it means, we had a great time. We are going to win because we are running good candidates who are right on the issues, like Adam Lowe.

[Glenn Jacobs @GlennJacobsTN]

What’s the definition of a Hootenanny?

You’ll have to ask Senator @jadamlowe but I had a pretty good time!

[Glenn Jacobs @GlennJacobsTN]

What’s the definition of a Hootenanny?

You’ll have to ask Senator @jadamlowe but I had a pretty good time!

[Milwaukee Brewers @Brewers]

THIS TEAM IS DIFFERENT

#WinOurWay

[Ken Yager @YagerTweets]

Thank you Tennessee Farmers for helping feed the Nation . And lest we forget, agriculture is the number one industry in Tennessee. #NationalFarmersDay

[Echoes of War @EchoesofWarYT]

Oct 12, 1870: Robert E. Lee died in Lexington, Virginia, five and a half years after he surrendered at Appomattox.

When the war ended, Lee was the most famous man in the South and he had nothing. His family home at Arlington had been seized by the federal government and turned into a cemetery for Union dead. He was 58, his health was failing, and he was under indictment for treason, though he was never tried.

Offers came in. Businesses wanted to put his name on their letterhead for big salaries. He turned them down. Instead he took a job as president of Washington College, a tiny school in the Shenandoah Valley that had been looted by Union troops during the war. It had a few dozen students and a handful of professors. The salary was $1,500 a year.

He threw himself into it. He knew most of the students by name. He added courses in engineering, business, and journalism, which were unusual for the time. He replaced a long list of rules with an honor system and told students the school had only one rule: every student must be a gentleman.

He spent those years telling Southerners to accept the result of the war. He told former soldiers to go home and rebuild. According to an often-told story, when a widow complained bitterly to him about the Union, he told her not to raise her sons to hate the United States and to make them Americans. In 1869 he paid a short visit to President Ulysses S. Grant at the White House.

His heart was giving out. In the spring of 1870 he took a long trip south, partly for his health. Crowds met him at every stop. On Cumberland Island in Georgia he visited the grave of his father, Revolutionary War hero Light-Horse Harry Lee.

On Sept 28, a cold, rainy day, he went to a long meeting at his church about raising money for the minister's salary. When they came up short, Lee pledged the difference himself. He walked home in the rain and sat down to dinner with his family. When he tried to say grace, no words came out.

He had suffered a stroke. They made a bed for him in the dining room. For two weeks he lay there, mostly silent, while one of the worst floods in Virginia history swept through the region outside.

He died around 9:30 in the morning on Oct 12. He was 63.

Accounts written later said his last words were "Strike the tent," along with an order for A.P. Hill to come up, as if he were back on the battlefield. Doctors who have studied the case think the stroke had taken his ability to speak, and many historians doubt those words were ever said.

The flood had washed away the town undertaker's stock of coffins. Some were found downriver, and the only usable one was too short. Lee was buried in his suit without shoes.

He was laid to rest in a crypt beneath the chapel on the college grounds. Within days the school's trustees voted to rename it Washington and Lee. His horse Traveller, who walked behind the funeral procession, is buried just outside.

After the war Lee had signed an oath of allegiance and applied for a pardon. The oath was lost and never acted on. It was found in the National Archives a century later, and in 1975 Congress restored his citizenship.

Americans still argue over how to remember him and the cause he fought for, and they probably always will. But in the last five years of his life, he chose to spend what he had left teaching young men, rebuilding a broken school, and telling a defeated people to put down their anger and become Americans again.

156 years ago today. Rest easy General.

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

Nicholas Winton helped 669 Jewish children escape the Nazis and his efforts went unrecognised for 50 years.

Then, in 1988, while sitting as a member of a TV audience, he suddenly found himself surrounded by the kids he had rescued, who were now adults.

[Ken Yager @YagerTweets]

A fine young man. We are
Proud of him.

[Damon Hininger @DamonHininger]

Good morning from @WestPoint_USMA!

[Marsha Blackburn @VoteMarsha]

Criminals sentenced to death should not be on death row for decades. Once they've exhausted all of their appeals, then the execution needs to be carried out.

[Ken Yager @YagerTweets]

This past weekend Malinda and stayed in Livingston to see the Paint Livingston Plein Air competition. Twenty-five top plein air painters from ten different states will set up their easels in and around Livingston to paint. What a sight to behold. Thank you Overton Arts Council!

[Ken Yager @YagerTweets]

This just in: According to reports from Tennessean, @TDOCCommish has resigned.