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Hank Snow

Clarence Eugene "Hank" Snow (9 May 1914-20 December 1999) was a Canadian-American country singer-songwriter. Born in Brooklyn, Nova Scotia, he grew up in extreme poverty in an abusive household, and he nearly died in a storm while working as a fisherman in 1930. Having idolized Jimmie Rogers while growing up, he became a country musician during the 1930s and was nicknamed "Hank, The Yodeling Ranger" while performing for a radio station. He moved to Nashville, Tennessee in 1949 and became a Grand Ole Opry regular in the 1950s, introduced Elvis Presley to the Opry in 1954, became a US citizen in 1958, and popularized the Australian song "I've Been Everywhere" in 1962. He died at his ranch in Madison, Tennessee in 1999.

Snow, along with Tammy Wynette and Minnie Pearl, campaigned for the white supremacist politician George Wallace throughout Wallace's political career.

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