Terry Dicus
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Terry Dicus (Republican Party) ran for election to the U.S. Senate to represent Tennessee. He lost in the Republican primary on August 6, 2020.
Dicus completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2020. Click here to read the survey answers.
Biography
Terry Dicus was born in Savannah, Tennessee. He earned a bachelor’s degree from the University of Tennessee, Martin in 1996, a master’s degree from Union University in 2001, and a J.D. from the Nashville School of Law in 2009. Dicus’s career experience includes working as an attorney. He also served as Chairman of the Board of Directors for Hardin County Skills, Inc., which describes its mission as to “help those with intellectual and developmental disabilities to have proper care and intervention.”[1][2]
Elections
2020
See also: United States Senate election in Tennessee, 2020
United States Senate election in Tennessee, 2020 (August 6 Democratic primary)
United States Senate election in Tennessee, 2020 (August 6 Republican primary)
General election
General election for U.S. Senate Tennessee
The following candidates ran in the general election for U.S. Senate Tennessee on November 3, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Bill Hagerty (R) | 62.2 | 1,840,926 |
 | Marquita Bradshaw (D)  | 35.2 | 1,040,691 | |
 | Elizabeth McLeod (Independent) | 0.6 | 16,652 | |
 | Yomi Faparusi (Independent) | 0.4 | 10,727 | |
 | Steven Hooper (Independent) | 0.3 | 9,609 | |
 | Kacey Morgan (Independent) (Unofficially withdrew) | 0.3 | 9,598 | |
 | Ronnie Henley (Independent) | 0.3 | 8,478 | |
 | Aaron James (Independent) | 0.2 | 7,203 | |
 | Eric William Stansberry (Independent) | 0.2 | 6,781 | |
 | Dean Hill (Independent) | 0.2 | 4,872 | |
 | Jeffrey Grunau (Independent) | 0.1 | 4,160 | |
 | John Gentry (Independent) (Write-in) | 0.0 | 64 | |
| Total votes: 2,959,761 | |||
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- Tom Kovach (Independent)
Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for U.S. Senate Tennessee
Marquita Bradshaw defeated Robin Kimbrough Hayes, James Mackler, Gary Davis, and Mark Pickrell in the Democratic primary for U.S. Senate Tennessee on August 6, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Marquita Bradshaw | 35.5 | 117,962 |
 | Robin Kimbrough Hayes | 26.6 | 88,492 | |
 | James Mackler | 23.8 | 78,966 | |
 | Gary Davis | 9.3 | 30,758 | |
 | Mark Pickrell | 4.8 | 16,045 | |
| Total votes: 332,223 | |||
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- Diana Onyejiaka (D)
- Tharon Chandler (D)
Republican primary election
Republican primary for U.S. Senate Tennessee
The following candidates ran in the Republican primary for U.S. Senate Tennessee on August 6, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Bill Hagerty | 50.8 | 331,267 |
 | Manny Sethi | 39.4 | 257,223 | |
 | George Flinn Jr. | 3.4 | 22,454 | |
 | Jon Henry | 1.2 | 8,104 | |
 | Natisha Brooks | 1.2 | 8,072 | |
 | Byron Bush | 0.8 | 5,420 | |
| Clifford Adkins | 0.8 | 5,316 | |
 | Terry Dicus | 0.3 | 2,279 | |
 | Tom Emerson Jr. | 0.3 | 2,252 | |
 | David Schuster | 0.3 | 2,045 | |
| John Osborne | 0.3 | 1,877 | |
 | Roy Cope | 0.3 | 1,791 | |
 | Kent Morrell | 0.3 | 1,769 | |
 | Aaron Pettigrew | 0.2 | 1,622 | |
| Glen Neal | 0.2 | 1,233 | |
| Total votes: 652,724 | |||
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- Geoffrey Stokes Nielson (R)
- Garrett Nichols (R)
- Johnny Presley (R)
- Larry Crim (R)
- Jim Elkins (R)
- Josh Gapp (R)
- Clyde Benson (R)
Campaign themes
2020
Ballotpedia survey responses
See also: Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection
Terry Dicus completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2020. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Dicus' responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.
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My father told me when I was a child I had better get a scholarship or he would get me job with him on the boat. I got two scholarships. I worked at the Peabody Hotel and Federal Express after college until I got my first law enforcement job with the Jackson Police Department. There I became a crime scene technician and field training officer while obtaining my Masters of Business Administration from Union University. I moved home and worked as an investigator with the Hardin County Sheriff's Department and attending the Nashville School of Law at night. I became a special agent/criminal investigator with the TBI in 2006 and handled official misconduct, murder and other serious crimes. I stayed on with the TBI after being inducted into the Cooper Hall of Fame at may law school and passing the bar. In 2013, I left the TBI hoping to make more money practicing law. I am more successful than I ever dreamed possible, but that is only because I have studied the proof of God and it is insurmountable. I am doing this for Him.
We must teach the growing scientific dissent to the theory that everything came from nothing.
It is time to use our power and influence to end war and end religious persecution everywhere.
- Like one of my heroes, Frederick Douglas, I will work with anyone to do good, but no-one to do harm.
The only person I look up to is Jesus of Nazareth. By his wounds, we are healed. No one has ever loved me like Him. Through Him, we can have eternal life.
Honesty, honesty and honesty.
I am honest and loyal.
Balance the budget and deter socialism.
Destroy the lie of evolution-that everything came from nothing.
The Iran Hostage Crisis, 6.
I cooked at New Orleans Famous Fried Chicken as soon as I was old enough to work. I worked there 3 years.
Isaiah. He predicted a man named Cyrus would free the Jews 180 years before King Cyrus freed the Jews. He also described the Passion of the Christ as if he had witnessed it 700 years before it occurred.
My Savior My God by Aaron Shust
My whole life has been a struggle. I have had at least one job and usually two since I was 16. I have struggled with tobacco use and alcohol use, but I beat them both.
Our deficit is the single greatest threat we have ever faced. When the economy crashes under its weight, the people, just like during the coronavirus pandemic will, demand more and more socialism and we will lose our republic.
It is the only institution where the criminal are never released.
It depends on who is in the majority (I'm very big on honesty).
If Trump nominates them, I would approve.
No.
Rand Paul is the closest senator to me ideologically. He genuinely cares about the deficit and I plan on helping him in every way including yard work.
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See also
2020 Elections
External links
Footnotes
- ↑ Information submitted to Ballotpedia through the Candidate Connection survey on July 9, 2020
- ↑ Hardin County Skills, Inc., “The People Behind the Organization,” accessed July 14, 2020
