Phil Bredesen
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Phil Bredesen (born November 21, 1943), a Democrat, is the 48th governor of Tennessee. Bredesen was elected in 2002 and easily reelected in 2006. Bredesen had been a successful mayor of Nashville from 1991 to 1999.
Before entering public service, Bredesen was a successful healthcare entrepreneur. Between research trips to the public library, he drafted a business plan at the kitchen table that led to the creation in 1980 of HealthAmerica Corp., a Nashville-based healthcare management company that eventually grew to more than 6,000 employees and traded on the New York Stock Exchange. He sold the company in 1986. [1]
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