Local businessman Baxter Lee is running for Congress in Tennessee’s 5th Congressional District, the seat being relinquished by longtime U.S. Rep. Jim Cooper (D-Nashville) after Tennessee Republicans agreed to redraw it as a GOP-friendly district in redistricting.

Lee is one of several Republican candidates reported to be interested in the newly conservative district, which will include parts of Davidson, Wilson and Williamson counties, plus several rural counties located south of Nashville.