Editing Ed Bryant (section)

== Entrance into politics ==
Bryant first became politically active in a high-profile way in 1988 when he served as an early organizer for the abortive [[President of the United States|presidential]] bid of [[conservatism|conservative]] [[televangelist]] [[Pat Robertson]]. Earlier that year, Eighth District Congressman [[Ed Jones (Tennessee politician)|Ed Jones]] decided not to run for reelection. Bryant won the Republican nomination for the district, a largely [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic]] area mostly in the northwestern part of the state. He lost in the [[general election]] to [[Union City, Tennessee|Union City]] [[Lawyer|attorney]] and state representative [[John S. Tanner]]. Bryant resumed the practice of law, having been appointed as United States Attorney for the [[U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Tennessee|Western District of Tennessee]] by President [[George H. W. Bush]] in 1991.<ref>Library of Congress, Presidential Nominations [http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ntquery/z?nomis:102PN0020600: "Presidential Nominations," retrieved on 2011-1-13] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151019003201/http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ntquery/z?nomis:102PN0020600: |date=October 19, 2015 }}</ref>  He later moved to [[Henderson, Tennessee|Henderson]], near Jackson, located in the neighboring Seventh Congressional District.