Rep. Allen Chesser: Combat Veteran, Cop, & Policy Problem Solver

Do Politics Better Podcast · Jul 13, 2023 · 56m

Rep. Allen Chesser was not likely to earn the high school superlative of "Most Likely to Serve in the General Assembly". It was also unlikely he would go on to marry his wife Jessica, who he met in high school, but was far from ever catching her fancy at the time.

However, the Nash County Republican has lived a life of overachievement, and it started with a conversation with a high school guidance counselor, was fortified by the attack on September 11, 2001, and forged into steel as a U.S. combat soldier in Iraq.

The freshman legislator talks about his incredible life, the tragedy he and his…