Profile
Anna Belle Clement O'Brien
Politician
Female
Born
May 6, 1923
Died
Aug 31, 2009
Anna Belle Clement O'Brien was a Tennessee politician, nicknamed "the first lady of Tennessee politics. " She served as the governor's chief of staff from 1963 to 1967, was a member of the Tennessee House of Representatives in the 89th General Assembly… Read More
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Timeline
Learn about the memorable moments in the evolution of Anna Belle Clement O'Brien.
CHILDHOOD
1923
Birth
Born in 1923.
THIRTIES
1953
30 Years Old
Anna Belle Clement was the daughter of Dickson, Tennessee attorney and mayor Robert S. Clement and Maybelle Goad Clement. Her brother, Frank G. Clement, was governor of Tennessee from 1953 to 1959 and again from 1963 to 1967.
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FORTIES
1966
43 Years Old
She married twice. Her first marriage was to A. W. Lucas, who served as mayor of New Johnsonville, Tennessee. In 1966 she married Charles H. O'Brien, who was a Tennessee State Senator at the time of their marriage and who later became Chief Justice of the Tennessee Supreme Court. They had been married 40 years at the time of his death in January 2007.
FIFTIES
1974
51 Years Old
Anna Belle and Charles O'Brien made their home in Crossville, which area Anna Belle represented in the General Assembly, winning her first election in 1974.
1976
53 Years Old
Her campaign slogan when she ran for the State Senate in 1976 was: "A woman's place is in the House … and the Senate too!"
1982
59 Years Old
In 1982 she was a candidate for the Democratic Party nomination for governor, but lost in the primary to Knoxville mayor Randy Tyree, who lost in the general election to Republican governor Lamar Alexander.
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LATE ADULTHOOD
2009
86 Years Old
O'Brien died August 31, 2009, in a Knoxville hospital after suffering a fall two weeks earlier at her home in Crossville.
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