Governors of Tennessee

A list of governors from the state of Tennessee.[1]

Name |  Party  |  Years

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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

## Notes[edit]

1. ↑ http://www.nga.org/portal/site/nga/menuitem.8fd3d12ab65b304f8a278110501010a0?submit=Submit&State=TN
2. ↑ Caruthers was never inaugurated, as Andrew Johnson was appointed military governor by President Lincoln.
3. ↑ 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.

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