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Herbert Slatery speaks about his appointment as attorney general in the Tennessee Supreme Court chamber in Nashville on Monday. Slatery previously served as Republican Gov. Bill Haslam's chief legal counsel. CLOSER LOOK AT HERBERT SLATERY III

Age: 57

Current job: Legal counsel to Republican Gov. Bill Haslam

Family: Married to Carey Slatery. The couple have two children

Education: University of Virginia, bacceloreate (1974); University of Tennessee Law School (1980)

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NASHVILLE Republican Senate Speaker Ron Ramsey may have lost at the ballot box in his efforts to defeat three Democratic Supreme Court justices, but he wound up Monday with a history-shattering consolation prize.

The five-member Supreme Court named Herbert Slatery III, Republican Gov. Bill Haslams legal counsel, as Tennessees first GOP attorney general since the end of post-Civil War Reconstruction in the state.

In doing so, the three Democratic and two Republican justices cast aside sitting Attorney General Bob Cooper, who had reapplied for another eight-year appointment, and chose Slatery, one of five Republicans who were finalists.

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Justices pick Republican Herbert Slatery as Tennessee attorney general