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American politician
Bill Boner, the Tennessee educator and politician

William Hill Boner (born February 14, 1945) is an American educator and former Democratic politician from Tennessee. He was the third mayor of the Metropolitan government of Nashville and Davidson County, serving from 1987 to 1991. He served in the U. S. House of Representatives, as the Representative from the 5th District of Tennessee, from 1979 to 1988.

In high school, Bill Boner was a basketball player and tennis player for the East Nashville Eagles. On March 13, 1962, his team won the state championship. The Tennesseean wrote that Boner "emerged as the biggest hero" of the game, noting that he "crammed 18 points through the nets within a period of 6 minutes and 48 seconds in the second quarter," adding that the opposing team "lost because of a Boner." He was elected student body president for the 1962 1963 school year, his senior year. He was also elected governor of Boy's State despite not planning to run until the last minute. He and his teammate missed part of the basketball season that year due to injuries from a car accident. A cheerleader from the nearby Glencliff High School cheerleader was critical condition. Nonetheless, he was selected for the first team All Nashville in 1963. Boner attended Middle Tennessee State University, where he was elected president of the freshman class and played basketball. He participated in campus life, including a panel on religion, and gave a presentation called "Decision Making in Personal Life" at a church's study series called "Moral Man and Moral Society". After university, he became the manager of a Shell station in Smyrna. On February 1, 1969, he became the basketball coach for Trevecca Nazarene College and took on a teaching role in the physical education department. During his first year coaching, the Tennessean called the team "loveable losers" for its remarkably poor performance. Boner appeared on the show with Traci Peel, a country singer in Nashville. The couple were engaged, making their romance controversial, as Boner was still married to his third wife. It was reported that Peel had previously told a Nashville reporter that the Mayor's passion could last for seven hours. At one point in the Donahue appearance, Boner played harmonica, while Peel sang "Rocky Top".

Boner opted not to seek reelection for a second term, the only mayor not to do so from the creation of the Metro government until Megan Barry did not seek reelection in 2019 after resigning from office in 2018. Following retirement from political office, Boner briefly became a businessman, owning a pallet factory in Tompkinsville, Kentucky, and then becoming a restaurant franchisee in Atlanta.