{"id":5669,"date":"2018-12-14T12:51:15","date_gmt":"2018-12-14T12:51:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ecm.eng.auburn.edu\/wp\/emag\/?p=5669"},"modified":"2018-12-18T16:29:03","modified_gmt":"2018-12-18T16:29:03","slug":"auburn-engineer-tennessee-governor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ecm.eng.auburn.edu\/wp\/emag\/?p=5669","title":{"rendered":"Auburn Engineer, Tennessee Governor"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_5670\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5670\" style=\"width: 341px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/ecm.eng.auburn.edu\/wp\/emag\/files\/2018\/12\/1.BillLee.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-5670\" src=\"http:\/\/ecm.eng.auburn.edu\/wp\/emag\/files\/2018\/12\/1.BillLee.jpeg\" alt=\"Bill Lee\" width=\"341\" height=\"493\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5670\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bill Lee<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Bill Lee, \u201981 mechanical engineering, will be sworn in as Tennessee\u2019s 50th governor in January. The Republican businessman defeated former Nashville mayor Karl Dean by 20 points in the Volunteer State\u2019s November 2018 election, receiving 59 percent of the vote to Dean\u2019s 39 percent.<\/p>\n<p>The political outsider made a name for himself during the primary season by touring Tennessee in an RV, visiting each of the state\u2019s 95 counties in 95 days.<\/p>\n<p>Lee joined Lee Co., his family\u2019s Franklin-based home services company, immediately after graduating Auburn. Lee Co. has more than 1,200 employees and currently touts an annual revenue of more than $225 million. Lee served as the company\u2019s CEO from 1992 to 2016.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bill Lee, \u201981 mechanical engineering, will be sworn in as Tennessee\u2019s 50th governor in January. The Republican businessman defeated former Nashville mayor Karl Dean by 20 points in the Volunteer State\u2019s November 2018 election, receiving 59 percent of the vote to Dean\u2019s 39 percent. 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