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The Shelby County area was part of the lands acquired by the United States government from the Chickasaw as part of the Jackson Purchase of 1818. Shelby County was established by European-American migrants in 1819 and named for Isaac Shelby, the former governor of Kentucky who had helped negotiate the land acquisition. [1]
Shelby County Board of Commissioners approved their $1.6 billion operating budget for fiscal year 2025 in the early hours of Tuesday morning. The almost 12-hour long meeting was tense, with the ...
Shelby County Clerk Wanda Halbert is sworn in during the Oath of Office Ceremony Shelby County government officials on Wednesday, Aug. 31, 2022, at the Cannon Center for the Performing Arts in ...
Shelby County v. Holder, 570 U.S. 529 (2013), was a landmark decision [1] of the Supreme Court of the United States regarding the constitutionality of two provisions of the Voting Rights Act of 1965: Section 5, which requires certain states and local governments to obtain federal preclearance before implementing any changes to their voting laws or practices; and subsection (b) of Section 4 ...
Brooke Muckerman covers Shelby County Government for The Commercial Appeal. She can be reached at (901) 484-6225, brooke.muckerman@commercialappeal.com and followed on X, formerly known as Twitter ...
Ruby Wharton. Alma mater. Tennessee State University ( BA) University of Mississippi ( JD) Website. ACwharton.com. A C Wharton Jr. (born August 17, 1944) is an American educator, politician, and attorney who served as the 63rd mayor of Memphis, Tennessee and previously mayor of Shelby County. He was the first African American to serve as mayor ...
Shelby County Clerk Wanda Halbert speaks to people waiting in line for motor vehicle renewals and registrations while giving a tour of the clerkâs office to The Commercial Appeal in Memphis ...
Memphis is a city in the U.S. state of Tennessee. It is the county seat of Shelby County, in the southwesternmost part of the state, and is situated along the Mississippi River. With a population of 633,104 at the 2020 U.S. census, [ 7 ] Memphis is the second-most populous city in Tennessee after Nashville . Memphis is the fifth-most populous ...