Governors of Tennessee
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Notes
- â http://www.nga.org/portal/site/nga/menuitem.8fd3d12ab65b304f8a278110501010a0?submit=Submit&State=TN
- â Caruthers was never inaugurated, as Andrew Johnson was appointed military governor by President Lincoln.
- â Peay signed the bill prohibiting he teaching of evolution in school, leading to the Scopes trial
Further reading
- 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.
| 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 | 2011â2019 |
| William Byron "Bill" Lee | Republican | 2019-present |