Zachary Paul "Zach" Wamp (born October 28, 1957 in Fort Benning, Georgia) is a Republican politician representing the 3rd Congressional district of Tennessee (map) since 1995. The district is based in Chattanooga and includes large parts of East Tennessee, including Oak Ridge.
Wamp was born in Fort Benning, Georgia. He attended the McCallie School, a boy's boarding school in Chattanooga, from the age of 11 until he graduated in 1976. He studied p...
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Zachary Paul "Zach" Wamp (born October 28, 1957 in Fort Benning, Georgia) is a Republican politician representing the 3rd Congressional district of Tennessee (map) since 1995. The district is based in Chattanooga and includes large parts of East Tennessee, including Oak Ridge.
Wamp was born in Fort Benning, Georgia. He attended the McCallie School, a boy's boarding school in Chattanooga, from the age of 11 until he graduated in 1976. He studied political science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1977–78 and 1979–80 and attended the University of Tennessee at Knoxville in between (1978–79).
After attending college, Wamp was a sales representative for Olan Mills, a photography company based in Chattanooga that primarily produces church directories, and later a commercial and industrial real estate broker.
Wamp began in politics as precinct vice chairman for the 1983 Chattanooga mayoral campaign of Gene Roberts. He was later elected chairman of the Hamilton County,...
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