A special primary election is being held in Tennessee on Oct. 7 to fill a U.S. House of Representatives seat in a Republican-leaning district that is crucial to the House Republican Conference’s control of the body.
Tennessee’s Seventh Congressional District, which covers suburban Nashville and the towns of Clarkesville and Franklin, was represented by former Rep. Mark Green, a Republican, from 2019 to 2025. Green, a retired U.S. Army doctor who once interrogated Saddam Hussein and later was elected to the U.S. House and served as chairman of the Homeland Security Committee, resigned on July 20 to start a new company, Prosimos, a government relations firm.
