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About Bill Haslam
Bill Haslam is an American businessman and politician who served as the 49th Governor of Tennessee from 2011 to 2019. He was born in Knoxville, Tennessee, in 1958, and came from a family of entrepreneurs. Haslam graduated from Emory University with a degree in history and then went on to earn a Master of Business Administration from Harvard Business School. During his tenure as governor, he focused on education reform, economic development, and fiscal responsibility.
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