Former Sen. Douglas Henry dies at age 90

Douglas Henry, a legendary presence in Nashville politics, a vestige of another era and the longest serving state legislator in Tennessee history, has died. He was 90.

An old-style conservative Southern Democrat, with a famous distaste for partisan politics, Henry served six decades in office, long enough to see a state run by Democrats for more than a century flipped in favor of the Republicans. Still, his retirement from the legislature in 2014 brought on high praise and even tears from colleagues, including members of the Republican supermajority.