After the Civil War, this state was headed by a man nicknamed "The Fighting Parson", William Brownlow.  
After the Civil War, this state was headed by a man nicknamed "The Fighting Parson", William Brownlow.  Brownlow was a slavery apologist but had been strongly pro-Union, and he encouraged passage of the 14th amendment, which led to this becoming the first Confederate state fully restored to the Union. His policies antagonized Nathan Forrest, who started the Ku Klux Klan in this state. The home of Constitutional Union Presidential candidate John Bell, its senators have included Estes Kefauver, Andrew Jackson, Andrew Johnson, and both the Senior and Junior Al Gores. It is also the state where John Scopes was found guilty of teaching evolution and where Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated. Name this state that used to be part of North Carolina, which since many of its citizens chose to go into the military is nicknamed the "Volunteer State".
After the Civil War, this state was headed by a man nicknamed "The Fighting Parson", William Brownlow.  
Tennessee