Julia Hurley

Julia Cheyanne Hurley (born September 28, 1981) is an American Republican politician and a former member of the Tennessee House of Representatives.

Business career

Hurley is certified to teach English as a Second Language and currently owns a business engaged in that activity. She previously owned The JaCy Company which housed SECGrillToppers, a sports licensing/product company. Hurley also worked for the RMD Corporation, owners of Hooters in Alcoa, Tennessee, before transferring to the Knoxville Hooters store on Kingston Pike from 2001 to 2004.

During her campaign for the Tennessee House, Hurley's Hooters experience was criticized, but she defended herself by stating that she wouldn't be the same person without that experience.

Political career

Hurley defeated 18-year Democrat incumbent Dennis Ferguson in 2010 by a vote of 8,833 to 7,834. Hurley's win was listed as the largest upset in Tennessee politics during the year 2010.

In the General Assembly in 2012, Hurley joined with Tennessee Senator Stacey Campfield in sponsoring successful Drug Testing for TANF legislation, commonly known as drug testing for welfare.

Julia Hurley (actress)

Julia R. Hurley (1848, per her tombstone – June 4, 1927) was an American actress who found popularity in her senior years in silent films. She is best remembered today as the 'landlady with the lamp' in the John Barrymore classic Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde 1920, a role for which she is uncredited. This film is her most readily available film today.

She worked for many of the early film studios i.e.: Biograph, Kalem, Essanay, Reliance, Imp, Champion and Solax.

As with most people born in the Victorian era, Hurley probably enjoyed a theatrical career acting in provinces or regional theatre and touring before making her first film in 1909. She continued with films until 1926.

She died June 4, 1927 of chronic myocarditis and nephritis.

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