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Entrepreneurs Who Turned Politicans
Bob Corker
Robert Phillips “Bob” Corker is the junior United States Senator from Tennessee. Before joining politics, he was a businessman who graduated from Chattanooga High School in 1970. Corker worked for four years as a construction superintendent and then started his own construction company, Bencor, which he sold in 1990. Later, in 1999, he purchased the two largest real estate companies in Chattanooga making him the largest private landowner in Hamilton County.
Corker first ran for the United States Senate in 1994, losing to the Republican primary to eventual winner Bill First. From 1995 to 1996, he was appointed Commissioner of Finance and Administration for the State of Tennessee, working for Governor Don Sundquist. Before his election to the Senate in 2006, he serves as mayor of Chattanooga from 2001 to 2005.
