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Posted by: Stacey Shrader Joslin & Kate Prince on Jan 19, 2021

The Tennessee Democratic Party on Saturday elected Hendrell Remus as the new party chair, the Nashville Post reports. Remus, vice chair of the Tennessee Young Democrats, is the first Black leader of the organization according to the group. An assistant emergency operations officer at Tennessee State University, Remus has previously run, unsuccessfully, for local and state offices in Memphis. He takes over from Mary Mancini. The House and Senate Democratic caucuses supported Wade Munday for the chairmanship. Munday, a former state Senate candidate, finished second in the voting. A few weeks ago, state Rep. John Ray Clemmons, D-Nashville, dropped out of the race according to Tennessee Lookout. Two other candidates — Kate Craig and Robin Kimbrough Hayes — dropped out on Saturday after the first round.