Damon Rivers Headden (1926 – 1958) was majority leader of the Tennessee House of Representatives from 1955 to 1957. A Democrat, Headden represented a district from the northern part of West Tennessee. One of his major interests was increasing the state's investment in its properties surrounding Reelfoot Lake, both as a conservation measure and as a way of stimulating economic development in what was a relatively impoverished area of the state. Members of the Tennessee House of Representatives 1926 births 1958 deaths 20th-century American politicians