Jake McCalmon (born April 6, 1986) is an American politician from

Tennessee Tennessee (, ), officially the State of Tennessee, is a landlocked U.S. state, state in the Southeastern United States, Southeastern region of the United States. It borders Kentucky to the north, Virginia to the northeast, North Carolina t ...

. He is a Republican and represents District 63 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 ...

. McCalmon attended

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where he earned a

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in Business Administration. His first campaign for the State House was in 2022, when he ran to succeed

Glen Casada Richard Glen Casada Jr. (born August 2, 1959) is an American politician, and a former Republican member of the Tennessee House of Representatives, where he represented District 63 ( Williamson County) from 2003 to 2023. He was the Speaker of the ...

as the representative for the 63rd district. McCalmon won the Republican primary and went on to defeat Democrat Kisha Davis in the general election. McCalmon lives in Williamson County with his wife, Rachelle, and their three daughters. In 2023, McCalmon supported a resolution to expel three Democratic lawmakers from the legislature for violating decorum rules. The expulsion was widely characterized as unprecedented.

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Living people Republican Party members of the Tennessee House of Representatives 1986 births 21st-century members of the Tennessee General Assembly {{Tennessee-politician-stub