Jimmy Quillen
| Jimmy Quillen | |
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| Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Tennessee's 1st district |
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In office January 3, 1963 – January 3, 1997 |
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| Preceded by | Louise Goff Reece |
| Succeeded by | Bill Jenkins |
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January 11, 1916 Scott County, Virginia |
| Died | November 2, 2003 (aged 87) Kingsport, Tennessee |
| Resting place | Oak Hill Cemetery Kingsport, Tennessee |
| Political party | Republican |
| Spouse(s) | Cecile Quillen |
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| Service/branch | United States Navy |
| Years of service | 1942–1946 |
| Rank | Lieutenant |
| Battles/wars | World War II |
James Henry Quillen, usually known as Jimmy Quillen (January 11, 1916 – November 2, 2003) was a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives from Tennessee from 1963 to 1997.
Quillen was born in Scott County, Virginia, son of John A. and Hannah Quillen, near the Tennessee line and was later a 1934 graduate of Dobyns-Bennett High School in Kingsport, Tennessee. Quillen worked as a restaurant kitchen prep worker, a grocery store clerk, a copy boy, and later as a young adult, an advertising salesman for a Kingsport newspaper.
During 1936, Quillen invested his own personal savings of $42 to become the publisher and owner of The Kingsport Mirror, a weekly newspaper that he started in Kingsport, Tennessee. Quillen sold The Kingsport Mirror during 1939 and moved to Johnson City, Tennessee (where he resided at the Montrose Court Apartments) to start up another weekly newspaper, The Johnson City Times.
Prior to the U.S. entry into World War II, Quillen received a two-year Selective Service System Class 3-A draft deferment beginning in December 1940 through late November 1942.
Quillen later served in the United States Navy as a public information officer from late 1942 to 1946. Quillen received his overseas orders in late 1944, with his assignment aboard the Ticonderoga class aircraft carrier USS Antietam (CV-36). The USS Antietam entered the Pacific theater of operations too late in the war to participate in combat, as the carrier arrived in Hawaii from the Panama Canal just as the first atomic bomb was dropped by the United States on Japan.
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