In July 2009, Tennessee State Senator
Paul Stanley resigned his
31st District seat. This prompted
Brian Kelsey, the then-Representative from Tennessee's 83rd State House District, to resign his post in September 2009 to run for the senate seat. A special election was triggered, with the primary to occur on December 1, the same day as the election to fill the Senate seat. Mark White won the primary in a three-candidate field, and went on to face Democrat Guthrie Castle and Independent John Andreucetti in the general election on January 12, 2010. The final results had White leading by a very comfortable margin in the extremely low turnout election., White was elected to a full term in the seat later in 2010. In 2023, White supported a resolution to
expel three
Democratic lawmakers from the legislature for violating decorum rules. The expulsion was widely characterized as unprecedented. ==References==