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About Hill McAlister
Harry Hill McAlister was an American lawyer and politician who served as the 37th governor of Tennessee from 1933 to 1937. He also served as Nashville's city attorney in the early 1900s, and as Tennessee's state treasurer in the 1920s and early 1930s. Inaugurated as governor at the height of the Great Depression, McAlister enacted massive spending cuts in an attempt to stabilize state finances. He coordinated federal programs in the state aimed at providing Depression-era relief, and was a supporter of the New Deal.
Everything about Hill McAlister →- Occupation
- politician, lawyer, governor, jurist
- Position held
- Governor of Tennessee, member of the State Senate of Tennessee
- Citizenship
- United States
- Born
- July 15, 1875
- Died
- October 30, 1959