id: ocd-person/9d744074-d7ae-4004-8912-bae320633c46
name: Richard Briggs
given_name: Richard
family_name: Briggs
birth_date: 1952-12-07
gender: Male
email: sen.richard.briggs@capitol.tn.gov
image: http://www.capitol.tn.gov/senate/members/images/s7.jpg
party:
- name: Republican
roles:
- start_date: 2014-11-04
  type: upper
  jurisdiction: ocd-jurisdiction/country:us/state:tn/government
  district: '7'
offices:
- classification: capitol
  address: Room 774, Cordell Hull Building 425 Rep. John Lewis Way North, Nashville,
    TN 37243
  voice: 615-741-1766
links:
- url: https://wapp.capitol.tn.gov/apps/legislatorinfo/member.aspx?district=S7
  note: homepage
- url: https://wapp.capitol.tn.gov/apps/LegislatorInfo/Member?district=S7&ga=114
- url: https://www.capitol.tn.gov/senate/members/s7.html
other_names:
- name: Briggs, R
- name: Briggs, R.
- name: R. Briggs
other_identifiers:
- scheme: legacy_openstates
  identifier: TNL000472
sources:
- url: https://ballotpedia.org/Richard_Briggs_(Tennessee)
- url: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Briggs
- url: https://justfacts.votesmart.org/candidate/biography/108375/richard-briggs
- url: https://wapp.capitol.tn.gov/apps/LegislatorInfo/directory.aspx?chamber=S
- url: https://wapp.capitol.tn.gov/apps/legislatorinfo/member.aspx?district=S7
- url: https://wapp.capitol.tn.gov/apps/LegislatorInfo/Member?district=S7&ga=114
- url: https://www.capitol.tn.gov/senate/members
- url: https://www.capitol.tn.gov/senate/members/
- url: https://www.capitol.tn.gov/senate/members/s7.html
- url: https://www.linkedin.com/in/richard-briggs-40073146
extras:
  office: 774 CHB
  personal info:
  - Born on December 7, 1952
  - Married, wife Stephanie
  - Methodist
  - Physician
  - M.D., University of Kentucky
  - Colonel, United States Army (Retired)