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==Notable people== American [[college football]] player and [[University of Miami]] coach [[Charlie Tate]] was born in Tracy City.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Tracy City Police Department|url=https://www.govserv.org/US/Tracy-City/302728666436020/Tracy-City-Police-Department|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200829192440/http://web.archive.org/screenshot/https://www.govserv.org/US/Tracy-City/302728666436020/Tracy-City-Police-Department|archive-date=August 29, 2020|access-date=August 29, 2020|website=www.govserv.org|language=en}}</ref> [[Miss Tennessee]] 1939 [[Judy Jones]] was from Tracy City.<ref name="Jones">{{cite web | year=2011 | title=Miss Tennessee Titleholders | publisher=Miss Tennessee | url=http://www.misstennessee.org/Titleholders.htm | access-date=November 6, 2011 | url-status=dead | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120925011623/http://www.misstennessee.org/titleholders.htm | archive-date=September 25, 2012 }}</ref> [[Baseball]] player [[Phil Douglas (baseball)|Phil Douglas]] is buried in Tracy City Cemetery, even though he died in [[Sequatchie, Tennessee]].<ref name="Douglas">{{cite web | year=2011 | title=Phil Douglas | website=Baseball-Reference | url=https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/d/douglph01.shtml | access-date= November 6, 2011}}</ref> [[Ernst Leonhardt]] was born to a [[Swiss people|Swiss]] [[emigrant]] couple in Tracy City in September 1885. He held [[dual citizenship]] and returned to [[Switzerland]] as a child. Leonhardt became involved in politics in 1932 when he joined the [[National Front (Switzerland)|National Front]], and before long he had risen to the rank of ''Gauführer'' (equivalent to [[Gauleiter]]) in both [[Basel-City]] and the [[Canton of Solothurn]]. Leonhardt relocated to [[Germany]] in 1939 and continued his [[Nazism|pro-Nazi]] activism from there.<ref name="rees">[[Philip Rees]], ''[[Biographical Dictionary of the Extreme Right Since 1890]]'', Simon & Schuster, 1990, p. 229</ref> In his absence, the Swiss courts found Leonhardt guilty of attacking the Swiss Confederation's independence and illegally recruiting for a foreign military (''i. e.'' the [[SS]]) and was sentenced to fifteen and a half years in prison.<ref name="wolf">Walter Wolf, ''[http://www.hls-dhs-dss.ch/textes/d/D43422.php Leonhardt, Ernst]'', in: ''Historisches Lexikon der Schweiz'', 2008 (in German, French, Italian)</ref> His Swiss citizenship was revoked in 1943. He remained in Germany for the rest of his life, continuing to produce [[propaganda]].<ref name="rees"/> He was killed in an air raid in March 1945.<ref name="rees"/><ref name="wolf"/>
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