 Brock won the congressional seat in 1962, ending a 40-year run by Democrats.He handed the seat to Baker in 1971, but conservative Democrat Marilyn Lloyd (the widow of a popular television news anchorman in Chattanooga) regained it in 1974 and held it for 20 years.As late as the early 1990s, area Democrats held at least half the local offices in the region, particularly in the southern portion.