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Gov. Buford Ellington (1907-1972) was governor of Tennessee from 1959-1963 and again from 1967-1971.

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Ellington originally considered himself "an old-fashioned segregationist," but after working with Lyndon B. Johnson's administration, he changed: he appointed the first black Cabinet officer and created the TN Human Relations Commission.
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