Most politicians don’t know what it’s like to build something. John Rose does.

He started and ran two successful businesses – creating hundreds of jobs for Tennessee families and training more than 4.5 million IT professionals around the world.

An 8th-generation Tennessean raised in Cookeville, John has spent his life doing the real work — farming the land in Lancaster and Temperance Hall, building two successful businesses from scratch, meeting a payroll, creating jobs, and raising a family rooted in Tennessee values.

He’s not a career politician. He’s one of us.