Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { ?s ?p Harry Hill McAlister (July 15, 1875 – October 30, 1959) was an American politician who served as 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 at the height of the Great Depression, McAlister enacted massive spending cuts in an attempt to stabilize state finances, and coordinated federal programs aimed at providing Depression-era relief.McAlister withdrew from state politics following a quarrel with powerful Memphis political boss E. H. Crump in 1936. He spent the last two decades of his life as a Referee in Bankruptcy in Nashville's district court.. }
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- Hill_McAlister abstract "Harry Hill McAlister (July 15, 1875 – October 30, 1959) was an American politician who served as 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 at the height of the Great Depression, McAlister enacted massive spending cuts in an attempt to stabilize state finances, and coordinated federal programs aimed at providing Depression-era relief.McAlister withdrew from state politics following a quarrel with powerful Memphis political boss E. H. Crump in 1936. He spent the last two decades of his life as a Referee in Bankruptcy in Nashville's district court.".