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is a city in Campbell County, Tennessee ,United States. Its population was 7,926 at the 2000 census. It is the principal city of the La Follette, Tennessee Micropolitan Statistical Area which includes all of Campbell County and is a component of the Knoxville-Sevierville-La Follette Combined Statistical Area. The city is named after its founders.
Located in eastern Tennessee, it is near Norris Lake (a part of the Norris Highlands region) and northwest of Knoxville on the Cumberland Plateau. La Follette is a former coal mining center. It is also the birth place noted musician Howard "Louie Blueie" Armstrong. The southern gospel/bluegrass family singing group, The Isaacs, are from La Follette.
Harvey and Grant LaFollette purchased where the present community lies around 1890. They founded the LaFollette Coal, Iron and Railway Company in order to exploit mineral resources they had observed. Although the business failed during the 1920s, the community continued to grow.