page_title: Don Sundquist
section_title: U.S. House of Representatives
hierarchical_section_title: Don Sundquist / U.S. House of Representatives
caption_attribution_description: English: Don Sundquist of Memphis (7th district of Tennessee), 6th term as Republican.
context_page_description: Donald Kenneth Sundquist is an American businessman and politician who served as the 47th Governor of Tennessee from 1995 to 2003. Prior to his governorship, he represented Tennessee's 7th congressional district in the United States House of Representatives from 1983 to 1995. He is a member of the Republican Party.
context_section_description: In 1982, Sundquist sought the seat of Congressman Robin Beard, who was retiring to run against Jim Sasser for the U.S. Senate.  Beard's district, the 6th, had been renumbered as the 7th following redistricting.  In the general election, Sundquist edged Bob Clement, son of former Governor Frank G. Clement, by just over 1,000 votes out of over 145,000 votes cast.  He would never face another contest nearly that close; he was unopposed for reelection in 1984 and was reelected three more times after that with almost no difficulty.
  While in Congress, Sundquist established a conservative voting record, and was popular with conservative-oriented groups such as the National Federation of Independent Businesses and the American Conservative Union.  He was a member of the House Ways and Means Committee, serving on the Subcommittee on Trade and the Subcommittee on Select Revenue Measures.  He was also a member of the Republican Task Force on Trade, and the Republican Task Force on Ethics Reform.
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