{"id":23159,"date":"2013-08-01T16:15:24","date_gmt":"2013-08-01T20:15:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=23159"},"modified":"2013-08-01T16:15:24","modified_gmt":"2013-08-01T20:15:24","slug":"longtime-tenn-lawmaker-lois-deberry-dies-at-68","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=23159","title":{"rendered":"Longtime Tenn. Lawmaker Lois Deberry Dies At 68"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><b>REP. LOIS DEBERRY<\/b><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>NASHVILLE, Tenn.\u00a0 \u2014 Tennessee<b>Rep. Lois DeBerry,<\/b> one of the longest-serving women lawmakers in the nation and a powerful influence in state politics, died Sunday after a nearly five-year bout with pancreatic cancer. She was 68.<\/p>\n<p>The Memphis Democrat was surrounded by family and friends when she died at a Memphis hospital, her nephew, <b>Gary DeBerry<\/b>.<\/p>\n<p>First elected in 1972, <b>DeBerry<\/b> was the longest-serving member of the state House of Representatives. Nationwide, only two other female lawmakers elected in 1972 are still serving, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>REP. LOIS DEBERRY &nbsp; NASHVILLE, Tenn.\u00a0 \u2014 TennesseeRep. Lois DeBerry, one of the longest-serving women lawmakers in the nation and a powerful influence in state politics, died Sunday after a nearly five-year bout with pancreatic cancer. She was 68. The Memphis Democrat was surrounded by family and friends when she died at a Memphis hospital, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":88889,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/88889"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23159"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23159\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}