page_title: Selmer, Tennessee
section_title: County seat
hierarchical_section_title: Selmer, Tennessee / History / County seat
caption_attribution_description: English: The courthouse for McNairy County, Tennessee.
context_page_description: Selmer is a town in McNairy County, Tennessee, in the southwestern part of the state. The population was 4,396 at the 2010 census and estimated at 4,400 at the 2018 census. It is the county seat of McNairy County. It is named after Selma, Alabama.
  Buford Pusser served as the sheriff of McNairy County from 1964 to 1970.
context_section_description: In 1890,  the county seat of McNairy County was moved from Purdy to Selmer.
caption: McNairy County Courthouse in Selmer, Tennessee.
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