11 Facts About Jason Mumpower

Jason Everett Mumpower was born on September 22,1973 and currently serves as Tennessee's 35th Comptroller of the Treasury.

Jason Mumpower was first elected to the position by the Tennessee General Assembly on January 13,2021.

Jason Mumpower is responsible for leading the Office of the Comptroller of the Treasury, which comprises 12 divisions and more than 560 employees, and ensuring the Office fulfills its mission to make government work better.

Jason Mumpower was first elected to the Tennessee House in the 100th Tennessee General Assembly at the age of 23, and he served as the Republican Majority Leader, a position to which he was elected on December 13,2006.

Jason Mumpower was a member of the Health and Human Resources Committee, the Government Operations Committee, and Finance, Ways and Means.

However, Jason Mumpower lost the House Speaker election to fellow Republican Kent Williams of Carter County.

Jason Mumpower voted for a measure to lift a cap preventing the construction of toll bridges and toll road projects across Tennessee during the 2008 session.

Jason Mumpower was born in Bristol, Tennessee and graduated from Bristol Tennessee High School in 1991, later attending King College in Bristol and graduating in 1995 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics and Business Administration.

Jason Mumpower is a noted comic book collector in Tennessee, with approximately 36,000 comic books cataloged and organized within his private collection.

Jason Mumpower began collecting comic books at the age of 12.

The Knoxville News Sentinel reported Jason Mumpower as stating that he "read a comic book each night before going to bed", and Jason Mumpower stated that his current favorite comic book superhero is Spider-Man.