112th Congress, 2nd Session
May 08, 1936
On this date in the 74th Congress (1935–1937), Members of the House of Representatives debated renaming a portion of the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) Chickamauga Dam after Congressman Samuel McReynolds of Tennessee.
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