Bill Lee (Tennessee politician)

Bill Lee (born October 9, 1959)Lee Company – Leadership is an American businessman and politician. He is the 50th and current Governor of Tennessee. From 2023 until 2024, Lee was the Chair of the Republican Governors Association.

He was the Republican nominee for Governor of Tennessee in the 2018 election.

Lee was the 7th congressional district’s representative to the Tennessee Higher Education Commission. Lee had no active political positions while running for governor and was a cattle rancher.

As governor, he has signed bills to ban mask mandate and ranked-choice voting. He also passed one of the country's strictest abortion bans; allowed guns to be carried without a permit; created school voucher programs; and increased penalties for protest-related offenses. Lee signed Tennessee's "bathroom bill"; and the Adult Entertainment Act, which banned drag shows in public.

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