United States congressional delegations from Tennessee

This page displays the historical members of U.S. Congress from Tennessee.

Here is the current partisan breakdown of the congressional members from Tennessee.

Current Congressional Partisan Breakdown from Tennessee
Party		U.S. Senate	U.S. House	Total
	Democratic Party	0	2	2
	Republican Party	2	7	9
TOTALS		2	9	11

Current members

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U.S. Senate

The current members of the U.S. Senate from Tennessee are:

Name:	Party:	Position:	Assumed Office:	Term Ends:	Next Election:	Official Website:	Predecessor:
Bob Corker		U.S. Senate, Tennessee	2007	January 3, 2019	November 2018	Link	William H. Frist (R)
Lamar Alexander		U.S. Senate, Tennessee	2003	January 3, 2015	November 4, 2014	Link	Fred Thompson (R)

U.S. House

The current members of the U.S. House from Tennessee are:

Name:	Party:	Position:	Assumed Office:	Term Ends:	Next Election:	Official Website:	Predecessor:
Charles J. Fleischmann		District 3	2011	January 3, 2015	November 4, 2014	Link	Zach Wamp (R)
Diane Black		District 6	2011	January 3, 2015	November 4, 2014	Link	Bart Gordon (D)
Jim Cooper		District 5	2003	January 3, 2015	November 4, 2014	Link	Bob Clement (D)
John J. Duncan, Jr.		District 2	1989	January 3, 2015	November 4, 2014	Link	John Duncan, Sr. (R)
Marsha Blackburn		District 7	2003	January 3, 2015	November 4, 2014	Link	Ed Bryant (R)
Phil Roe		District 1	2009	January 3, 2015	November 4, 2014	Link	David Davis (R)
Scott DesJarlais		District 4	2011	January 3, 2015	November 4, 2014	Link	Lincoln Davis (D)
Stephen Lee Fincher		District 8	2011	January 3, 2015	November 4, 2014	Link	John Tanner (D)
Steve Cohen		District 9	2007	January 3, 2015	November 4, 2014	Link	Harold Ford, Jr. (D)

Historical members

Senate

Historical Representation to the US Senate by Party from Tennessee
Party	Total
Democratic	37
Republican	24
Whig	5
Total Senators	66

Class 1 Senators from Tennessee

Senator	Years Served	Party
William Cocke	1796-1797	Republican
Andrew Jackson	1797-1798	Republican
Daniel Smith	1798-1799	Republican
Joseph Anderson	1799-1815	Republican
George W. Campbell	1815-1818	Republican
John H. Eaton	1818-1829	Republican
Felix Grundy	1829-1838	Democratic
Ephraim H. Foster	1838-1839	Whig
Felix Grundy	1839-1840	Democratic
Alfred O. P. Nicholson	1840-1842	Democratic
Ephraim H. Foster	1843-1845	Whig
Hopkins L. Turney	1845-1851	Democratic
James C. Jones	1851-1857	Whig
Andrew Johnson	1857-1862	Democratic
David T. Patterson	1866-1869	Democratic
William G. Brownlow	1869-1875	Republican
Andrew Johnson	1875-1875	Democratic
David M. Key	1875-1877	Democratic
James E. Bailey	1877-1881	Democratic
Howell E. Jackson	1881-1886	Democratic
Washington C. Whitthorne	1886-1887	Democratic
William B. Bate	1887-1905	Democratic
James B. Frazier	1905-1911	Democratic
Luke Lea	1911-1917	Democratic
Kenneth D. McKellar	1917-1953	Democratic
Albert A. Gore, Sr.	1953-1971	Democratic
William E. Brock III	1971-1977	Republican
James R. Sasser	1977-1995	Democratic
William H. Frist	1995-2007	Republican
Bob Corker	2007-Present	Republican

Class 2 Senators from Tennessee

Senator	Years Served	Party
William Blount	1796-1797	Republican
Joseph Anderson	1797-1799	Republican
William Cocke	1799-1805	Republican
Daniel Smith	1805-1809	Republican
Jenkin Whiteside	1809-1811	Republican
George W. Campbell	1811-1814	Republican
Jesse Wharton	1814-1815	Republican
John Williams	1815-1823	Republican
Andrew Jackson	1823-1825	Republican
Hugh Lawson White	1825-1840	Whig
Alexander O. Anderson	1840-1841	Democratic
Spencer Jarnagin	1843-1847	Whig
John Bell	1847-1859	Whig
Alfred O. P. Nicholson	1859-1861	Democratic
Joseph S. Fowler	1866-1871	Republican
Henry Cooper	1871-1877	Democratic
Isham G. Harris	1877-1897	Democratic
Thomas B. Turley	1897-1901	Democratic
Edward W. Carmack	1901-1907	Democratic
Robert L. Taylor	1907-1912	Democratic
Newell Sanders	1912-1913	Republican
William R. Webb	1913-1913	Democratic
John K. Shields	1913-1925	Democratic
Lawrence D. Tyson	1925-1929	Democratic
William E. Brock	1929-1931	Democratic
Cordell Hull	1931-1933	Democratic
Nathan L. Bachman	1933-1937	Democratic
George L. Berry	1937-1938	Democratic
A. Thomas Stewart	1939-1949	Democratic
C. Estes Kefauver	1949-1963	Democratic
Herbert S. Walters	1963-1964	Democratic
Ross Bass	1964-1967	Democratic
Howard H. Baker, Jr.	1967-1985	Republican
Albert A. Gore, Jr.	1985-1993	Democratic
Harlan Mathews	1993-1994	Democratic
Fred Thompson	1994-2003	Republican
Lamar Alexander	2003-Present	Republican

House

• 1800s
• 1900s
• 2000s

Historical Representation to the US House by Party in the 1800s from Tennessee
Party	Total
Democratic	85
Republican	29
Democratic-Republican	31
Whig	32
Anti-Jacksonian	10
Know Nothing	6
Opposition	7
Unionist	10
Total Representatives	210

Representatives to the U.S. House in Tennessee in the 1800s

Representative	Years Served	Party
Andrew Jackson	1796–1797	Democratic-Republican
William C.C. Claiborne	1797–1801	Democratic-Republican
William Dickson	1801–1807	Democratic-Republican
George W. Campbell	1803–1809	Democratic-Republican
John Rhea	1803–1815, 1817–1823	Democratic-Republican
Jesse Wharton	1807–1809	Democratic-Republican
Pleasant Moorman Miller	1809–1811	Democratic-Republican
Robert Weakley	1809–1811	Democratic-Republican
Felix Grundy	1811–1814	Democratic-Republican
John Sevier	1811–1815	Democratic-Republican
Thomas K. Harris	1813–1815	Democratic-Republican
John Henry Bowen	1813–1815	Democratic-Republican
Parry Wayne Humphreys	1813–1815	Democratic-Republican
Newton Cannon	1814–1817, 1819–1823	Democratic-Republican
Samuel Powell	1815–1817	Democratic-Republican
Isaac Thomas	1815–1817	Democratic-Republican
Bennett H. Henderson	1815–1817	Democratic-Republican
James B. Reynolds	1815–1817, 1823–1825	Democratic-Republican
William Grainger Blount	1815–1819	Democratic-Republican
Francis Jones	1817–1823	Democratic-Republican
Samuel E. Hogg	1817–1819	Democratic-Republican
Thomas Claiborne	1817–1819	Democratic-Republican
George Washington Lent Marr	1817–1819	Democratic-Republican
John Alexander Cocke	1819–1825	Democratic-Republican
Robert Allen	1819–1825	Democratic-Republican
Henry Hunter Bryan	1819–1821	Democratic-Republican
Adam Rankin Alexander	1823–1825	Democratic-Republican
John Blair	1823–1825	Democratic-Republican
Sam Houston	1823–1827	Democratic
Jacob C. Isacks	1823–1825	Democratic-Republican
James T. Sandford	1823–1825	Democratic-Republican
James Israel Standifer	1823–1825	Democratic-Republican
John Blair	1825–1835	Democratic
John Alexander Cocke	1825–1827	Democratic
James Coffield Mitchell	1825–1829	Democratic
Jacob C. Isacks	1825–1833	Democratic
Robert Allen	1825–1827	Democratic
James K. Polk	1825–1839	Democratic
John Hartwell Marable	1825–1829	Democratic
Adam Rankin Alexander	1825–1827	Democratic
Pryor Lea	1827–1831	Democratic
Robert Desha	1827–1831	Democratic
John Bell	1827–1835	Democratic
Davy Crockett	1827–1831, 1833–1835	Democratic
James Israel Standifer	1829–1835	Democratic
Cave Johnson	1829–1837, 1839–1845	Democratic
Thomas Dickens Arnold	1831–1833	Anti-Jacksonian
William Hall	1831–1833	Democratic
William Fitzgerald	1831–1833	Democratic
Samuel Bunch	1833–1835	Democratic
Luke Lea	1833–1835	Democratic
John B. Forester	1833–1835	Democratic
Balie Peyton	1833–1835	Democratic
David W. Dickinson	1833–1835	Democratic
William Marshall Inge	1833–1835	Democratic
William Claiborne Dunlap	1833–1837	Democratic
William Blount Carter	1835–1837	Anti-Jacksonian
Samuel Bunch	1835–1837	Anti-Jacksonian
Luke Lea	1835–1837	Anti-Jacksonian
James Israel Standifer	1835–1837	Anti-Jacksonian
John B. Forester	1835–1837	Anti-Jacksonian
Balie Peyton	1835–1837	Anti-Jacksonian
John Bell	1835–1837	Anti-Jacksonian
Abram Poindexter Maury	1835–1837	Anti-Jacksonian
Ebenezer J. Shields	1835–1837	Anti-Jacksonian
Adam Huntsman	1835–1837	Democratic
William Blount Carter	1837–1841	Whig
Abraham McClellan	1837–1843	Democratic
Joseph Lanier Williams	1837–1843	Whig
James Israel Standifer	1837	Whig
Hopkins Lacy Turney	1837–1843	Democratic
William B. Campbell	1837–1843	Whig
John Bell	1837–1841	Whig
Abram Poindexter Maury	1837–1839	Whig
Ebenezer J. Shields	1837–1839	Whig
Richard Cheatham	1837–1839	Whig
John Wesley Crockett	1837–1841	Whig
Christopher Harris Williams	1837–1843,1849–1853	Whig
William Stone	1837–1839	Whig
Julius W. Blackwell	1839–1841,1843–1845	Democratic
Meredith Poindexter Gentry	1839–1843, 1845–1853	Whig
Harvey Magee Watterson	1839–1843	Democratic
Aaron V. Brown	1839–1845	Democratic
Thomas Dickens Arnold	1841–1843	Whig
Thomas Jefferson Campbell	1841–1843	Whig
Robert Looney Caruthers	1841–1843	Whig
Milton Brown	1841–1847	Whig
Andrew Johnson	1843–1853	Democratic
William Tandy Senter	1843–1845	Whig
Alvan Cullom	1843–1847	Democratic
George Washington Jones	1843–1859	Democratic
David W. Dickinson	1843–1845	Whig
Joseph Hopkins Peyton	1843–1845	Whig
John Baptista Ashe	1843–1845	Whig
William Michael Cocke	1845–1849	Whig
John Hervey Crozier	1845–1849	Whig
Barclay Martin	1845–1847	Democratic
Lucien Bonaparte Chase	1845–1849	Democratic
Frederick Perry Stanton	1845–1855	Democratic
Edwin Hickman Ewing	1845–1847	Whig
Hugh Lawson White Hill	1847–1849	Democratic
James Houston Thomas	1847–1851, 1859–1861	Democratic
Washington Barrow	1847–1849	Whig
William T. Haskell	1847–1849	Whig
Albert Galiton Watkins	1849–1853	Whig
Josiah M. Anderson	1849–1851	Whig
John Houston Savage	1849–1853, 1855–1859	Democratic
Andrew Ewing	1849–1851	Democratic
Isham G. Harris	1849–1853	Democratic
William Montgomery Churchwell	1851–1855	Democratic
William Hawkins Polk	1851–1853	Democratic
William Cullom	1851–1855	Whig
Brookins Campbell	1853	Democratic
Samuel Axley Smith	1853–1859	Democratic
Charles Ready	1853–1855	Whig
Robert Malone Bugg	1853–1855	Whig
Felix Zollicoffer	1853–1855	Whig
Emerson Etheridge	1853–1855	Whig
Nathaniel Green Taylor	1854–1855	Whig
Albert Galiton Watkins	1855–1859	Democratic
William Henry Sneed	1855–1857	Know Nothing
Charles Ready	1855–1859	Know Nothing
John Vines Wright	1855–1861	Democratic
Felix Zollicoffer	1855–1859	Know Nothing
Emerson Etheridge	1855–1857	Know Nothing
Thomas Rivers	1855–1857	Know Nothing
Horace Maynard	1857–1859	Know Nothing
John DeWitt Clinton Atkins	1857–1859, 1873–1883	Democratic
William Tecumsah Avery	1857–1861	Democratic
Thomas Amos Rogers Nelson	1859–1861	Opposition
Horace Maynard	1859–1861	Opposition
Reese Bowen Brabson	1859–1861	Opposition
William Brickly Stokes	1859–1861	Opposition
Robert Hopkins Hatton	1859–1861	Opposition
James Minor Quarles	1859–1861	Opposition
Emerson Etheridge	1859–1861	Opposition
Horace Maynard	1861–1863	Unionist
George Washington Bridges	1863	Unionist
Andrew Jackson Clements	1861–1863	Unionist
Nathaniel Green Taylor	1866–1867	Unionist
Horace Maynard	1866–1867	Unionist
William Brickly Stokes	1866–1871	Republican
Edmund Cooper	1866–1867	Unionist
William B. Campbell	1866–1867	Unionist
Samuel Mayes Arnell	1866–1867	Unionist
Isaac Roberts Hawkins	1866–1867	Unionist
John W. Leftwich	1866–1867	Unionist
Samuel Mayes Arnell	1867–1871	Republican
Roderick R. Butler	1867–1875	Republican
Isaac Roberts Hawkins	1867–1871	Republican
James Mullins	1867–1869	Republican
John Trimble	1867–1869	Republican
David Alexander Nunn	1867–1869, 1873–1875	Republican
Lewis Tillman	1869–1871	Republican
William Farrand Prosser	1869–1871	Republican
William Jay Smith	1869–1871	Republican
Abraham Ellison Garrett	1871–1873	Democratic
John Morgan Bright	1871–1881	Democratic
Edward Isaac Golladay	1871–1873	Democratic
Washington C. Whitthorne	1871–1883, 1887–1891	Democratic
Robert Porter Caldwell	1871–1873	Democratic
William Wirt Vaughan	1871–1873	Democratic
Jacob Montgomery Thornburgh	1873–1879	Republican
William Crutchfield	1873–1875	Republican
Horace Harrison	1873–1875	Republican
Barbour Lewis	1873–1875	Republican
Horace Maynard	1867–1875	Republican
William McFarland	1875–1877	Democratic
George Gibbs Dibrell	1875–1885	Democratic
Samuel McClary Fite	1875	Democratic
John Ford House	1875–1883	Democratic
William Parker Caldwell	1875–1879	Democratic
H. Casey Young	1875–1881, 1883–1885	Democratic
Haywood Yancey Riddle	1875–1879	Democratic
James Henry Randolph	1877–1879	Republican
Robert L. Taylor	1879–1881	Democratic
Leonidas C. Houk	1879–1891	Republican
Benton McMillin	1879–1899	Democratic
Charles Bryson Simonton	1879–1883	Democratic
Augustus Herman Pettibone	1881–1887	Republican
Richard Warner	1881–1885	Democratic
William Robert Moore	1881–1883	Republican
Andrew Jackson Caldwell	1883–1887	Democratic
John Goff Ballentine	1883–1887	Democratic
John May Taylor	1883–1887	Democratic
Rice Alexander Pierce	1883–1885, 1889–1893, 1897–1905	Democratic
John R. Neal	1885–1889	Democratic
James D. Richardson	1885–1905	Democratic
Presley T. Glass	1885–1889	Democratic
Zachary Taylor	1885–1887	Republican
Roderick R. Butler	1887–1889	Republican
Joseph E. Washington	1887–1897	Democratic
Benjamin A. Enloe	1887–1895	Democratic
James Phelan	1887–1891	Democratic
Alfred A. Taylor	1889–1895	Republican
H. Clay Evans	1889–1891	Republican
Henry C. Snodgrass	1891–1895	Democratic
Nicholas N. Cox	1891–1901	Democratic
Josiah Patterson	1891–1897	Democratic
John C. Houk	1891–1895	Republican
James C. McDearmon	1893–1897	Democratic
William Coleman Anderson	1895–1897	Republican
Henry R. Gibson	1895–1905	Republican
Foster V. Brown	1895–1897	Republican
John E. McCall	1895–1897	Republican
Walter P. Brownlow	1897–1910	Republican
John A. Moon	1897–1921	Democratic
John W. Gaines	1897–1909	Democratic
Thetus W. Sims	1897–1921	Democratic
Edward W. Carmack	1897–1901	Democratic
Charles Edward Snodgrass	1899–1903	Democratic

Historical Representation to the US House by Party in the 1900s from Tennessee
Party	Total
Democratic	54
Republican	27
Total Representatives	81

Representatives to the U.S. House in Tennessee in the 1900s

Representative	Years Served	Party
Lemuel P. Padgett	1901–1922	Democratic
Malcolm R. Patterson	1901–1906	Democratic
Morgan Cassius Fitzpatrick	1903–1905	Democratic
Nathan W. Hale	1905–1909	Republican
Mounce G. Butler	1905–1907	Democratic
William C. Houston	1905–1919	Democratic
Finis J. Garrett	1905–1929	Democratic
Cordell Hull	1907–1921, 1923–1931	Democratic
George W. Gordon	1907–1911	Democratic
Richard W. Austin	1909–1919	Republican
Joseph W. Byrns	1909–1936	Democratic
Zachary D. Massey	1910–1911	Republican
Sam R. Sells	1911–1921	Republican
Kenneth D. McKellar	1911–1917	Democratic
Hubert Fisher	1917–1931	Democratic
J. Will Taylor	1919–1939	Republican
Ewin L. Davis	1919–1933	Democratic
B. Carroll Reece	1921–1931, 1933–1947, 1951–1961	Republican
Joseph Edgar Brown	1921–1923	Republican
Wynne F. Clouse	1921–1923	Republican
Lon A. Scott	1921–1923	Republican
Clarence W. Turner	1922–1923, 1933–1939	Democratic
Sam D. McReynolds	1923–1939	Democratic
William C. Salmon	1923–1925	Democratic
Gordon Browning	1923–1935	Democratic
Edward E. Eslick	1925–1932	Democratic
Jere Cooper	1929–1957	Democratic
Oscar B. Lovette	1931–1933	Republican
John R. Mitchell	1931–1939	Democratic
Edward H. Crump	1931–1935	Democratic
Willa McC. Blake Eslick	1932–1933	Democratic
Herron C. Pearson	1935–1943	Democratic
Walter "Clift" Chandler	1935–1940	Democratic
Richard M. Atkinson	1937–1939	Democratic
Al Gore, Sr.	1939–1944, 1945–1953	Democratic
Jo Byrns, Jr.	1939–1941	Democratic
John Jennings, Jr.	1939–1951	Republican
Estes Kefauver	1939–1949	Democratic
W. Wirt Courtney	1939–1949	Democratic
Clifford Davis	1940–1965	Democratic
J. Percy Priest	1941–1956	Democratic
Jim N. McCord	1943–1945	Democratic
Tom J. Murray	1943–1966	Democratic
Harold Earthman	1945–1947	Democratic
Dayton E. Phillips	1947–1951	Republican
Joe L. Evins	1947–1977	Democratic
James B. Frazier, Jr.	1949–1963	Democratic
James P. Sutton	1949–1955	Democratic
Howard Baker, Sr.	1951–1964	Republican
Ross Bass	1955–1964	Democratic
J. Carlton Loser	1957–1963	Democratic
Fats Everett	1958–1969	Democratic
Louise G. Reece	1961–1963	Republican
Jimmy Quillen	1963–1997	Republican
Bill Brock	1963–1971	Republican
Dick Fulton	1963–1975	Democratic
Irene Bailey Baker	1964–1965	Republican
John Duncan, Sr.	1965–1988	Republican
William R. Anderson	1965–1973	Democratic
George W. Grider	1965–1967	Democratic
Ray Blanton	1967–1973	Democratic
Dan Kuykendall	1967–1975	Republican
Ed Jones	1969–1989	Democratic
LaMar Baker	1971–1975	Republican
Robin L. Beard, Jr.	1973–1983	Republican
Marilyn Lloyd	1975–1995	Democratic
Harold Ford, Sr.	1975–1997	Democratic
Clifford Allen	1975–1978	Democratic
Al Gore	1977–1985	Democratic
Bill Boner	1979–1987	Democratic
Jim Cooper	1983–1995, 2003–present	Democratic
Don Sundquist	1983–1995	Republican
Bart Gordon	1985–2011	Democratic
John Duncan	1988–present	Republican
Bob Clement	1988–2003	Democratic
John S. Tanner	1989–2011	Democratic
Zach Wamp	1995–2011	Republican
Van Hilleary	1995–2003	Republican
Ed Bryant	1995–2003	Republican
William L. Jenkins	1997–2007	Republican
Harold E. Ford, Jr.	1997–2007	Democratic

Historical Representation to the US House by Party in the 2000s from Tennessee
Party	Total
Democratic	2
Republican	7
Total Representatives	9

Representatives to the U.S. House in Tennessee in the 2000s

Representative	Years Served	Party
Lincoln Davis	2003–2011	Democratic
Marsha Blackburn	2003–present	Republican
David Davis	2007–2009	Republican
Steve Cohen	2007–present	Democratic
Phil Roe	2009–present	Republican
Chuck Fleischmann	2011–present	Republican
Scott DesJarlais	2011–present	Republican
Diane Black	2011–present	Republican
Stephen Fincher	2011–present	Republican