Governors Of Tennessee
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A list of governors from the state of Tennessee.[1]
Name |
Party |
Years
|
John Sevier
|
Democratic Republican
|
1796-1801, 1803-1809
|
Archibald Roane
|
Democratic Republican
|
1801-1803
|
Willie Blount
|
Democratic Republican
|
1809-1815
|
Joseph McMinn
|
Democratic Republican
|
1815-1821
|
William Carroll
|
Democratic Republican/Democrat
|
1821-1827, 1829-1835
|
Sam Houston
|
Democratic Republican
|
1827-1829
|
William Hall
|
Democrat
|
1829
|
Newton Cannon
|
Whig
|
1835-1839
|
James Knox Polk
|
Democrat
|
1839-1841
|
James Chamberlain Jones
|
Whig
|
1841-1845
|
Aaron Venable Brown
|
Democrat
|
1845-1847
|
Neill Smith Brown
|
Whig/Know-Nothing
|
1847-1849
|
William Trousdale
|
Democrat
|
1849-1851
|
William Bowen Campbell
|
Whig
|
1851-1853
|
Andrew Johnson
|
Democrat
|
1853-1857, 1862-1865
|
Isham Green Harris
|
Democrat
|
1857-1862
|
Robert Looney Caruthers[2]
|
Democrat
|
1863
|
Edward Hazzard East
|
Democrat/Opposition Party
|
1865
|
William Gannaway Brownlow
|
Whig/Know-Nothing
|
1865-1869
|
DeWitt Clinton Sender
|
Republican/Whig
|
1869-1871
|
John Calvin Brown
|
Democrat/Whig
|
1871-1875
|
James Davis Porter
|
Democrat
|
1875-1879
|
Albert Smith Marks
|
Democrat
|
1879-1881
|
Alvin Hawkins
|
Republican/Whig
|
1881-1883
|
William Brimage Bate
|
Democrat
|
1883-1887
|
Robert Love Taylor
|
Democrat
|
1887-1891, 1897-1899
|
John Price Buchanon
|
Farm/Labor
|
1891-1893
|
Peter Turney
|
Democrat
|
1893-1897
|
Benton McMillin
|
Democrat
|
1899-1903
|
James Beriah Frazier
|
Democrat
|
1903-1905
|
John Isaac Cox
|
Democrat
|
1905-1907
|
Malcolm Rice Patterson
|
Democrat
|
1907-1911
|
Ben Walter Hooper
|
Democrat
|
1911-1915
|
Thomas Clarke Rye
|
Democrat
|
1915-1919
|
Albert Houston Roberts
|
Democrat
|
1919-1921
|
Alfred Alexander Taylor
|
Republican
|
1921-1923
|
Austin Peay III[3]
|
Democrat
|
1923-1927
|
Henry Hollis Horton
|
Democrat
|
1927-1933
|
Harry Hill McAlister
|
Democrat
|
1933-1937
|
Gordon Browning
|
Democrat
|
1937-1939, 1949-1953
|
William Prentice Cooper
|
Democrat
|
1939-1945
|
Jim Nance McCord
|
Democrat
|
1945-1949
|
Frank Goad Clement
|
Democrat
|
1953-1959, 1963-1967
|
Earl Buford Ellington
|
Democrat
|
1959-1963, 1967-1971
|
Bryant Winfield Culberson Dunn
|
Republican
|
1971-1975
|
Ray Blanton
|
Democrat
|
1975-1979
|
Lamar Alexander
|
Republican
|
1979-1987
|
Ned Ray McWherter
|
Democrat
|
1987-1995
|
Don Sundquist
|
Republican
|
1995-2003
|
Phil Bredesen
|
Democrat
|
2003-2011
|
Bill Haslam
|
Republican
|
2011–2019
|
William Byron "Bill" Lee
|
Republican
|
2019-present
|
- ↑ http://www.nga.org/portal/site/nga/menuitem.8fd3d12ab65b304f8a278110501010a0?submit=Submit&State=TN
- ↑ Caruthers was never inaugurated, as Andrew Johnson was appointed military governor by President Lincoln.
- ↑ Peay signed the bill prohibiting he teaching of evolution in school, leading to the Scopes trial
Further reading[edit]
- Crawford, Charles W., ed. Governors of Tennessee. Vol. 1, 1790-1835. Memphis, Tenn.: Memphis State U. Press, 1979. 213 pp.
- Wills, Ridley, II. Tennessee Governors at Home. Franklin, Tenn.: Hillsboro Pr., 1999. 176 pp.
Categories: [Tennessee Governors] [Tennessee]
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