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{{Officeholder
{{Officeholder
|name=Brazilla Carroll Reece
|name=B. Carroll Reece
|image=Brazilla Carroll Reece RNC 1946.jpg
|image=Brazilla Carroll Reece RNC 1946.jpg
|party=[[Republican]]
|party=[[Republican]]
===1948 Senate campaign===
===1948 Senate campaign===
Reece ran for Senate in 1948 to succeed retiring Democrat Tom Stewart, facing future vice presidential nominee [[Estes Kefauver]]. He lost the general election in a landslide to Kefauver, mainly carrying counties in the eastern portion of the state.<ref>[https://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=89838 TN US Senate Race - Nov 02, 1948]. ''Our Campaigns''. Retrieved May 29, 2021.</ref>
Reece ran for Senate in 1948 to succeed retiring Democrat Tom Stewart, facing future vice presidential nominee [[Estes Kefauver]]. He lost the general election in a landslide to Kefauver, mainly carrying counties in the eastern portion of the state.<ref>[https://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=89838 TN US Senate Race - Nov 02, 1948]. ''Our Campaigns''. Retrieved May 29, 2021.</ref>
==Quotes==
Reece made several prophetic assertions:
{{cquote|We approach closer and closer to socialism.<ref>[https://www.azquotes.com/quote/776542 B. Carroll Reece quote: We approach closer and closer to socialism]. ''AZ Quotes''. Retrieved August 8, 2021.</ref>}}
{{cquote|In the long run, much public opinion is made in the universities; ideas generated there filter down through the teaching profession and the students into the general public.<ref>[https://www.azquotes.com/quote/777023 B. Carroll Reece quote: In the long run, much public opinion is made in...]. ''AZ Quotes''. Retrieved August 8, 2021.</ref>}}
{{cquote|As the egalitarianism of Marxism is attractive to many, socialism could have attracted many followers in America, anyway. But there is no doubt that it could not possibly have affected us so widely and so deeply as it has, had it not been heavily financed.<ref>[B. Carroll Reece quote: As the egalitarianism of Marxism is attractive to many, socialism...]. ''AZ Quotes''. Retrieved August 8, 2021.</ref>}}
{{cquote|In this era in which we live, the old-fashioned virtues grow increasingly unpopular.<ref>[https://www.azquotes.com/quote/1031626 B. Carroll Reece quote: In this era in which we live, the old-fashioned virtues...]. ''AZ Quotes''. Retrieved August 8, 2021.</ref>}}
{{cquote|Instead of being taught independence, energy, and enterprise, our youth today is taught to look for security.<ref>[https://www.azquotes.com/quote/903086 B. Carroll Reece quote: Instead of being taught independence, energy, and enterprise, our youth...]. ''AZ Quotes''. Retrieved August 8, 2021.</ref>}}
==Legacy==
==Legacy==