Thearon "Tom" Atkins of Cincinnati, Ohio, was a television news anchorman and politician of the Republican party. Atkins was an anchorman for WLWT-TV in Cincinnati, a job shared by several Cincinnati-area politicians, including Jerry Springer, Charlie Luken, and Courtis Fuller. In 1978, Atkins was hand-picked by the Hamilton County, Ohio, Republican leadership to challenge Tom Luken in his bid for re-election to the United States House of Representatives. However, Atkins lost the Republican primary to Stan Aronoff. In 1980, Atkins won the Republican nomination, but nevertheless lost to Luken in the general election.
See also:
Election Results, U.S. Representative from Ohio, 2nd District
TomAtkins has been a pastor in the North Georgia Conference of the United Methodist Church for more than 20 years, serving in small as well as large churches.
Tom was appointed as a General Evangelist from the North Georgia Annual Conference of the United Methodist Church in June of 1994.
Tom presently serves as the Southeastern Jurisdictional Representative to the Council on Evangelism of the United Methodist Church and is past President of the Asbury College Alumni Association.
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