Marsha Blackburn became active in Republican politics in Tennessee by helping start a Young Republicans club in Williamson county. In 1989 she was chosen to lead the county’s Republican Party. She unsuccessfully ran for the U.S. House of Representatives in 1992 and served as a Tennessee delegate to that year’s Republican National Convention. In 1998 she won a seat in the Tennessee Senate before later winning election to the U.S. House of Representatives.
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