Dan Evins

Founder of Cracker Barrel Restaurants

Cracker Barrel says Evins opened his first restaurant in Lebanon, Tenn., in 1969. The restaurant catered to highway travelers and focused on offering the Southern hospitality, country-style cooking and the gift shop that came to define the chain. He fashioned the restaurant after the country stores of his youth in rural Tennessee. Evins helped build the chain into a national brand as CEO from 1969 to 2001 and chairman until he retired in 2004.

Relationships Interlocks Giving Data

Federal Election Campaign Contributions

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RNC Republican National State Elections Committee

• 1 contribution · 50,000 USD ('94)

Tennessee Republican Party Federal Election Account

• 7 contributions · 36,000 USD ('96→'09)

Van Hilleary US Representative from Tennessee

• 9 contributions · 18,600 USD ('95→'06)

Republican National Committee U.S. political committee that leads the Republican Party of the U.S., a/k/a The Grand Ol' Party/GOP

• 5 contributions · 17,000 USD ('96→'08)

Volunteer PAC Tennessee GOP PAC

• 3 contributions · 15,000 USD ('03→'06)

Cracker Barrel Old Country Store, Inc. PAC

• 69 contributions · 13,800 USD ('95→'02)

GOPAC, Inc. GOP training operation since 1978

• 3 contributions · 12,500 USD ('93→'98)

Tenn Political Action Committee Inc (Tenn PAC)

• 3 contributions · 11,000 USD ('04→'08)

John Thune US Senator from South Dakota (2005-present); former US Representative (1997-2003)

• 8 contributions · 10,500 USD ('04→'08)

Tennessee Unity '96 Committee-Non Federal

• 1 contribution · 10,000 USD ('96)