Updated: July 19, 2017

Well-known Tennessee politician Jake Butcher died this morning.

Butcher ran for governor in the late 1970s. He was also involved in a major bank fraud case in the mid-80s and served prison time. Jim Neal of the Nashville law firm Neal and Harwell represented him in the high-profile case.

Butcher was born in Union County in 1936.

Funeral arrangements were not immediately known.