Claude Thomas Ramsey (April 4, 1943 – June 18, 2018) was an American farmer and politician. Ramsey lived in

Chattanooga, Tennessee Chattanooga ( ) is a city in Hamilton County, Tennessee, United States, and its county seat. It is located along the Tennessee River and borders Georgia (U.S. state), Georgia to the south. With a population of 181,099 in 2020, it is Tennessee ...

and was a strawberry farmer. He served on the Hamilton County Commission and as county mayor of Hamilton County. Ramsey served on the 1977 Tennessee Constitutional Convention. Ramsey also served in the

Tennessee House of Representatives The Tennessee House of Representatives is the lower house of the Tennessee General Assembly, the state legislature of the U.S. state of Tennessee. Constitutional requirements According to the state constitution of 1870, this body is to consis ...

from 1973 to 1977 and was a Republican. Tennessee Governor

Bill Haslam William Edward Haslam (; born August 23, 1958) is an American billionaire businessman and politician who served as the 49th governor of Tennessee from 2011 to 2019. A member of the Republican Party, Haslam previously served as the 67th mayor of ...

appointed Ramsey to be a deputy to the governor. After he retired, Ramsey started a government relations business: the River Branch Strategies, in 2015.Longtime public servant Claude Ramsey dies
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1943 births 2018 deaths Politicians from Chattanooga, Tennessee Farmers from Tennessee Heads of county government in Tennessee County commissioners in Tennessee Republican Party members of the Tennessee House of Representatives 20th-century members of the Tennessee General Assembly {{Tennessee-politician-stub