ATLANTA, Ga. (WATE) – A well-known Tennessee politician died at the age of 81 Wednesday morning in Atlanta. The family of Jake Butcher says he died following a six-month battle with cancer. The East ...

CLINTON, Tenn. — Jake Butcher, who helped bring the World’s Fair to Knoxville before his family’s East Tennessee banking network collapsed amid a federal investigation, died Wednesday. He was 81.

CLINTON, Tenn. (AP) – Jake Butcher, who helped bring the Word’s Fair to Knoxville before his family’s East Tennessee banking network collapsed amid a federal investigation, has died. He was 81. Holley ...

While friends acknowledged Wednesday that Butcher had done wrong in his life, many also remembered him fondly as a generous, funny and loyal man.

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