Anna Belle Clement O'Brien
- Anna Belle Clement O'Brien
Anna Belle Clement O'Brien (born May 6, 1923) was a member of the Tennessee House of Representatives in the 89th General Assembly, from 1975 to 1977, and a Tennessee State Senator in the 90th to 96th General Assemblies, from 1977 to 1991. While she was not the first woman ever to be in the Tennessee Senate, she was the first woman ever to be a chairman of a committee. During her twenty-two years of serving, she was the chairperson for three committees: Education, Transportation, and the Democratic Caucas.
Biography
She was the daughter of Dickson, Tennessee attorney and mayor Robert S. Clement and Maybelle Goad Clement. Her brother, Frank G. Clement, was governor of Tennessee from 1953 to 1959 and again from 1963 to 1967. During his second governorship she served as his chief of staff.
In 1966 she married Charles H. O'Brien, who was a Tennessee State Senator at the time of their marriage and who later became Chief Justice of the Tennessee Supreme Court. They had been married 40 years at the time of his death in January 2007.
In 1982 she was a candidate for the Democratic Party nomination for governor, but lost in the primary to Knoxville mayor Randy Tyree, who lost in the general election to Republican governor Lamar Alexander.
See also
* Frank Gorrell
* Van Hilleary
* Jake Butcher
* Jim Henry
References
* [http://www.geocities.com/Nashville/9475/may99.html Every Day in Tennessee History]
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