Jay Reedy

Jay Reedy is an American politician, farmer, and locksmith from the state of Tennessee. A Republican, Reedy has represented the 74th district of the Tennessee House of Representatives, covering Houston, Humphreys, and Montgomery Counties, since 2015.[1][2]

Jay Reedy
Member of the Tennessee House of Representatives
from the 74th district
Assumed office
January 13, 2015
Preceded byJohn Tidwell
Personal details
Political partyRepublican
Spouse(s)Vickie
Children3
ResidenceErin, Tennessee
EducationAustin Peay State University (BS)
WebsiteOfficial website
Campaign website

Career

Prior to being elected to office, Reedy held a number of jobs, including cattle farmer, locksmith, army reserve officer, and Houston County election board commissioner.[3]

In 2014, Reedy ran for the 74th district of the Tennessee House of Representatives, challenging Democratic incumbent John Tidwell, who had held the seat since 1997. After handily winning the Republican primary, Reedy narrowly defeated Tidwell in the general election with 52% of the vote.[4]

Reedy won re-election in 2016 and 2018 with increasingly dominant margins, and faces no opposition whatsoever in 2020.[5] In 2019, Reedy vied to replace Glen Casada as Speaker of the House, but lost in an intra-caucus vote to fellow Republican Cameron Sexton.[6][7]

Personal life

Reedy lives in Erin with his wife Vickie; they have 3 children.[3]

gollark: I could still go in, though, they weren't the annoying sort of protestors.
gollark: I was once in Edinburgh consuming food from a Subway and found that there was actually a vegan protest in front of it.
gollark: This is because people don't actually seem to work, on the whole, according to stated ethical values.
gollark: Thus, if you try and make me do things which are "good according to some ethical standard which I claim to roughly agree with" but inconvenience me personally a significant amount, such as veganism, I may just entirely ignore you because "some animals do not like being used to produce milk for me" is part of the "far group" of issues I am not really paying attention to.
gollark: Ignoring things when it's convenient.

References
  1. "Representative Jay Reedy". Tennessee General Assembly. Retrieved July 29, 2020.
  2. "Jay Reedy". Ballotpedia. Retrieved July 29, 2020.
  3. "Meet Jay". Jay Reedy for Tennessee. Retrieved July 29, 2020.
  4. Jay Reedy (November 12, 2014). "Payette High grad wins Tennessee election". Independent-Enterprise. Retrieved July 29, 2020.
  5. "TN House of Representatives: Hodges, Johnson, and Reedy win seats". Clarksville Now. November 6, 2018. Retrieved July 29, 2020.
  6. Andy Sher (June 20, 2019). "Rep. Jay Reedy announces bid for Tennessee House speaker, warns against 'self indulgence and moral corruption'". Chattanooga Times Free Press. Retrieved July 29, 2020.
  7. Joel Ebert and Natalie Allison (July 24, 2019). "Tennessee House Republicans elect Rep. Cameron Sexton as nominee for next speaker". The Tennessean. Retrieved July 29, 2020.
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