Bud Hulsey

Bud Hulsey
Representative Bud Hulsey
Member of the Tennessee House of Representatives
from the 2nd district
Incumbent
Assumed office
January 13, 2015
Preceded byTony Shipley
Personal details
Born
Charles Nolan Hulsey

(1949-05-30) May 30, 1949 (age 75)
Political partyRepublican
ResidenceKingsport, Tennessee
Alma materBob Jones University, B.A.

Charles Nolan "Bud" Hulsey (born May 30, 1949) is an American politician. A Republican, he represents the 2nd District in Sullivan County in the Tennessee House of Representatives .[1]

Early life

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Bud Hulsey was born on May 30, 1949, and he attended Durango High School as a Durango Demon from 1964 to his 1967 graduation. Hulsey later attended Bob Jones University at Greenville, South Carolina from 1967 to 1972 where was a member of the "Byran" (William Jennings Bryan Literary Society at Bob Jones University) men's society and where he also obtained his Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) degree in education.[1]

Career

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Bud Hulsey is a retired Kingsport Police lieutenant with post graduate work at the University of Virginia via the FBI National Academy.[1]

He is the owner and President of Burlington Logistics, Inc., a trucking company located in the Tri-Cities area of East Tennessee.[2]

Hulsey was elected to the Tennessee House of Representatives as a member of the 109th General Assembly in 2014 after defeating three-term incumbent Tony Shipley[3] in the Republican primary and Independent J.R. Enfield in the general election.[3] He was again elected to serve in the 110th General Assembly in 2016 after a victory over Democratic challenger J.S. Moore.[4] On November 6, 2018, Hulsey was re-elected to serve in the 111th General Assembly after defeating Democratic challenger Arvil Love, Jr. and Independent challenger Robert Ellis in the General Election.[4] The second district proved its loyalty to Hulsey yet again on November 3, 2020, when they overwhelmingly supported him against repeat challenger Arvil Love, Jr. in the general election.[4] He has since been re-elected uncontested.

During the COVID-19 pandemic, he proposed legislation to prohibit mandatory COVID-19 vaccination.[5]

In 2023, the Tennessee House voted on motions to remove three sitting Democratic representatives — Gloria Johnson, Justin Jones, and Justin J. Pearson — for disrupting proceedings with a protest as citizens were at the capitol voicing their outrage over a mass shooting at a Nashville school that left six dead.[6] Hulsey voted in favor of all three resolutions: HR 63, to remove Pearson;[7] HR 64, to remove Johnson;[8] and HR 65, to remove Jones.[9] Pearson and Jones were expelled, while Johnson was not.[10]

In 2024, Hulsey proposed to ban lab-grown meat. He argued that exposing humans to lab-grown meat was a violation of the Nuremberg Code (a set of ethical research principles for human experimentation established in the wake of Nazi experiments on humans).[11]

Elections

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Tennessee House of Representatives, 2nd Representative District, 2014
Party Candidate Votes %
Republican Bud Hulsey 12,249 84.2
Independent J.R. Enfield 2,302 15.8
Tennessee House of Representatives, 2nd Representative District, 2016
Party Candidate Votes %
Republican Bud Hulsey 20,334 80.5
Democratic J.S. Moore 4,940 19.6
Tennessee House of Representatives, 2nd Representative District, 2018
Party Candidate Votes %
Republican Bud Hulsey 17,444 75.9
Democratic Arvil Love, Jr. 4,966 21.6
Independent Robert Ellis 572 2.5
Tennessee House of Representatives, 2nd Representative District, 2020
Party Candidate Votes %
Republican Bud Hulsey 23,278 77.1
Democratic Arvil Love, Jr. 6,902 22.9
Tennessee House of Representatives, 2nd Representative District, 2022
Party Candidate Votes %
Republican Bud Hulsey 15,359 99.6
Other (United States) Write-in 63 0.4

Committee assignments

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Hulsey serves in the 113th General Assembly as:

  • Chair, Criminal Justice Committee[1]
  • Member, Criminal Justice Subcommittee[1]
  • Member, Agriculture and National Resources Committee[1]
  • Member, Agriculture and National Resources Subcommittee[1]
  • Member, Calendars and Rules Committee*Member[1]

Hulsey served in the 112th General Assembly as:

  • Chair, Corrections Subcommittee[1]
  • Member, Agriculture and National Resources Committee[1]
  • Member, Agriculture and National Resources Subcommittee[1]
  • Member, Criminal Justice Subcommittee[1]
  • Member, State Government Committee[1]

Hulsey served in the 111th General Assembly as:

  • Chair, Corrections Subcommittee[1]
  • Member, State Committee[1]
  • Member, Agriculture and National Resources Committee[1]
  • Member, Agriculture and National Resources Subcommittee[1]
  • Member, Judiciary Committee[1]
  • Member, Public Safety Committee of Extraordinary Session II[1]

Hulsey served in the 110th General Assembly as:

  • Vice-chair, House State Government Committee[1]
  • Member, House Agriculture and Natural Resources Committee[1]
  • Member, House State Government Committee[1]

Hulsey served in the 109th General Assembly as:

  • Member, House Agriculture and Natural Resources Committee[1]
  • Member, House State Government Committee[1]
  • Member, House State Government Subcommittee[1]

Other

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  • In July 2014, Hulsey lost his campaign chair, former Tennessee State Representative Michael Locke, in a hit and run incident by a drunk driver.[12]

References

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  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y "Representatives - TN General Assembly".
  2. ^ "Burlington Logistics, Inc. - About Us".
  3. ^ a b "Bud Hulsey - Ballotpedia".
  4. ^ a b c "Bud Hulsey - Ballotpedia".
  5. ^ Yu, Yue Stella. "Tennessee bill allowing religious exemptions from COVID-19 vaccines advances in Senate". The Tennessean. Retrieved 2021-07-13.
  6. ^ "Tennessee GOP file resolutions to expel three Democrats who led gun reform chants on House floor". The Tennessean. Retrieved 2023-04-04.
  7. ^ "HR0063". Tennessee General Assembly. Retrieved 6 April 2023.
  8. ^ "HR0064". Tennessee General Assembly. Retrieved 6 April 2023.
  9. ^ "HR0065". Tennessee General Assembly. Retrieved 6 April 2023.
  10. ^ Kruesi, Kimberly; Mattise, Jonathan (6 April 2023). "Tennessee's House expels 2 of 3 Democrats over guns protest". Associated Press News.
  11. ^ "Moves to ban lab-grown meat intensify in Republican US states". Financial Times. 2024.
  12. ^ "Kingsport businessman Michael K. Locke killed in hit-and-run incident". 23 June 2014.
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