It's very likely that he is a Republican. The particular section of Tennessee he is from was Unionist during the Civil War and has been dominated by the Republicans ever since.
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While Hawkins County did vote for the Republican Presidential candidate, it is very common in the southern US states to vote for a Republican executive at the federal level but vote for Democrats at the local level.
Looking at the various election results from Hawkins County, it seems that most local politics is non-partisan or most candidates run as Independent candidates. It is most likely that he is Independent or ran as an Independent in the Mount Carmel elections. I can find no record of any political donations exceeding $200 in his name, either.
The unofficial election results for Hawkins County is at this link and it looks like county and local municipal offices are non-partisan.
He was a Democrat not a Republican.
William H. Taft was a Republican.
democrat
republican
McKinley was a Republican.
republican
no, he was a republican.
William Blakely Jones died in 1979.
William Blakely Jones was born in 1907.
Republican
Of the three, Dr. Woodrow Wilson was the Democrat.
He is a Democrat. He's never voted Republican.