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Bud Hulsey

American politician (born 1949)

Bud Hulsey
Representative Bud Hulsey
Member of the Tennessee House of Representatives from the 2nd district
Incumbent
Assumed office January 13, 2015
Preceded by	Tony Shipley
Personal details
Born	Charles Nolan Hulsey (1949-05-30) May 30, 1949 (age 75)
Political party	Republican
Residence	Kingsport, Tennessee
Alma mater	Bob Jones University, B.A.

Charles Nolan "Bud" Hulsey (born May 30, 1949) is an American politician. A Republican, he represents the 2nd District in Sullivan County in the Tennessee House of Representatives .^[1]

Bud Hulsey was born on May 30, 1949, and he attended Durango High School as a Durango Demon from 1964 to his 1967 graduation. Hulsey later attended Bob Jones UniversityatGreenville, South Carolina from 1967 to 1972 where was a member of the "Byran" (William Jennings Bryan Literary Society at Bob Jones University) men's society and where he also obtained his Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) degree in education.^[1]

Bud Hulsey is a retired Kingsport Police lieutenant with post graduate work at the University of Virginia via the FBI National Academy.^[1]

He is the owner and President of Burlington Logistics, Inc., a trucking company located in the Tri-Cities area of East Tennessee.^[2]

Hulsey was elected to the Tennessee House of Representatives as a member of the 109th General Assembly in 2014 after defeating three-term incumbent Tony Shipley^[3] in the Republican primary and Independent J.R. Enfield in the general election.^[3] He was again elected to serve in the 110th General Assembly in 2016 after a victory over Democratic challenger J.S. Moore.^[4] On November 6, 2018, Hulsey was re-elected to serve in the 111th General Assembly after defeating Democratic challenger Arvil Love, Jr. and Independent challenger Robert Ellis in the General Election.^[4] The second district proved its loyalty to Hulsey yet again on November 3, 2020, when they overwhelmingly supported him against repeat challenger Arvil Love, Jr. in the general election.^[4] He has since been re-elected uncontested.

During the COVID-19 pandemic, he proposed legislation to prohibit mandatory COVID-19 vaccination.^[5]

In 2023, the Tennessee House voted on motions to remove three sitting Democratic representatives — Gloria Johnson, Justin Jones, and Justin J. Pearson — for disrupting proceedings with a protest as citizens were at the capitol voicing their outrage over a mass shooting at a Nashville school that left six dead.^[6] Hulsey voted in favor of all three resolutions: HR 63, to remove Pearson;^[7]HR 64, to remove Johnson;^[8] and HR 65, to remove Jones.^[9] Pearson and Jones were expelled, while Johnson was not.^[10]

In 2024, Hulsey proposed to ban lab-grown meat. He argued that exposing humans to lab-grown meat was a violation of the Nuremberg Code (a set of ethical research principles for human experimentation established in the wake of Nazi experiments on humans).^[11]

Hulsey serves in the 113th General Assembly as:

• Chair, Criminal Justice Committee^[1]
• Member, Criminal Justice Subcommittee^[1]
• Member, Agriculture and National Resources Committee^[1]
• Member, Agriculture and National Resources Subcommittee^[1]
• Member, Calendars and Rules Committee*Member^[1]

Hulsey served in the 112th General Assembly as:

• Chair, Corrections Subcommittee^[1]
• Member, Agriculture and National Resources Committee^[1]
• Member, Agriculture and National Resources Subcommittee^[1]
• Member, Criminal Justice Subcommittee^[1]
• Member, State Government Committee^[1]

Hulsey served in the 111th General Assembly as:

• Chair, Corrections Subcommittee^[1]
• Member, State Committee^[1]
• Member, Agriculture and National Resources Committee^[1]
• Member, Agriculture and National Resources Subcommittee^[1]
• Member, Judiciary Committee^[1]
• Member, Public Safety Committee of Extraordinary Session II^[1]

Hulsey served in the 110th General Assembly as:

• Vice-chair, House State Government Committee^[1]
• Member, House Agriculture and Natural Resources Committee^[1]
• Member, House State Government Committee^[1]

Hulsey served in the 109th General Assembly as:

• Member, House Agriculture and Natural Resources Committee^[1]
• Member, House State Government Committee^[1]
• Member, House State Government Subcommittee^[1]

• In July 2014, Hulsey lost his campaign chair, former Tennessee State Representative Michael Locke, in a hit and run incident by a drunk driver.^[12]