Jimmy Matlock (born February 5, 1959) is an American politician, business owner, and Republican member of 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 ...

for the 21st district, encompassing Lenoir City, and parts of Loudon County and Monroe County.House webpage
/ref> He served from 2007 to 2019. He succeeded Russell Johnson. Matlock was succeeded by Lowell Russell.

Biography

Jimmy Matlock was born on February 5, 1959, in

Loudon, Tennessee Loudon is a city in and the county seat of Loudon County, Tennessee, United States. Its population was 6,001 at the 2020 census. It is included in the Knoxville, Tennessee Metropolitan Statistical Area. The city is located in East Tennessee, so ...

. He attended the

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and the

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. He inherited a

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.Official small business website
/ref> He is a boardmember of the

Tellico Reservoir Tellico Dam is a concrete gravity and earthen embankment dam on the Little Tennessee River that was built by the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) in Loudon County, Tennessee. Planning for a dam structure on the Little Tennessee was reported ...

Development Agency, the Eaton Crossroads Ruritan Club,

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for the Tennessee region, the Loudon County

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, the East Tennessee

Church of the Nazarene The Church of the Nazarene is an evangelical Christian denomination that emerged in North America from the Wesleyan-Holiness movement within Methodism during the late 19th century. The denomination has its headquarters in Lenexa, Kansas. and it ...

Advisory Board. He is also a former chair of the Loudon County Republican Party, and a member of the

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of Loudon County, McMinn County, Monroe County, and Blount County. He is married with three children, and he is a

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. Matlock is the owner of Matlock Tire Corporation headquartered in Lenoir City, Tennessee. The

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gave him a 93% evaluation in 2017.

References

External links

Project Vote Smart – Representative Jimmy Matlock (TN)
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