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United States congressional delegations from Tennessee
From Ballotpedia
This page displays the historical members of U.S. Congress from Tennessee.
Current members
U.S. Senate
The current members of the U.S. Senate from Tennessee are:
U.S. House
The current members of the U.S. House from Tennessee are:
- Charles J. Fleischmann
- Diane Black
- Jim Cooper
- John J. Duncan, Jr.
- Marsha Blackburn
- Phil Roe
- Scott DesJarlais
- Stephen Lee Fincher
- Steve Cohen
Historical members
List of United States Senators from Tennessee
The following individuals were elected to the U.S. Senate from Tennessee.
List of United States Representatives from Tennessee
The following individuals were elected to the U.S. House from Tennessee.
- Andrew Jackson (Democratic-Republican), serving from 1796–1797
- William C.C. Claiborne (Democratic-Republican), serving from 1797–1801
- William Dickson (Democratic-Republican), serving from 1801–1807
- George W. Campbell (Democratic-Republican), serving from 1803–1809
- John Rhea (Democratic-Republican), serving from 1803–1815, 1817–1823
- Jesse Wharton (Democratic-Republican), serving from 1807–1809
- Pleasant Moorman Miller (Democratic-Republican), serving from 1809–1811
- Robert Weakley (Democratic-Republican), serving from 1809–1811
- Felix Grundy (Democratic-Republican), serving from 1811–1814
- John Sevier (Democratic-Republican), serving from 1811–1815
- Thomas K. Harris (Democratic-Republican), serving from 1813–1815
- John Henry Bowen (Democratic-Republican), serving from 1813–1815
- Parry Wayne Humphreys (Democratic-Republican) 1813–1815
- Newton Cannon (Democratic-Republican), serving from 1814–1817, 1819–1823
- Samuel Powell (Democratic-Republican), serving from 1815–1817
- Isaac Thomas (Democratic-Republican), serving from 1815–1817
- Bennett H. Henderson (Democratic-Republican), serving from 1815–1817
- James B. Reynolds (Democratic-Republican), serving from 1815–1817, 1823–1825
- William Grainger Blount (Democratic-Republican), serving from 1815–1819
- Francis Jones (Democratic-Republican), serving from 1817–1823
- Samuel E. Hogg (Democratic-Republican), serving from 1817–1819
- Thomas Claiborne (Democratic-Republican), serving from 1817–1819
- George Washington Lent Marr (Democratic-Republican), serving from 1817–1819
- John Alexander Cocke (Democratic-Republican), serving from 1819–1825
- Robert Allen (Democratic-Republican), serving from 1819–1825
- Henry Hunter Bryan (Democratic-Republican), serving from 1819–1821
- Adam Rankin Alexander (Democratic-Republican), serving from 1823–1825
- John Blair (Democratic-Republican), serving from 1823–1825
Sam Houston, serving from 1823–1827
- Jacob C. Isacks (Democratic-Republican), serving from 1823–1825
- James T. Sandford (Democratic-Republican), serving from 1823–1825
- James Israel Standifer (Democratic-Republican), serving from 1823–1825
John Blair, serving from 1825–1835
John Alexander Cocke, serving from 1825–1827
James Coffield Mitchell, serving from 1825–1829
Jacob C. Isacks, serving from 1825–1833
Robert Allen, serving from 1825–1827
James K. Polk, serving from 1825–1839
John Hartwell Marable, serving from 1825–1829
Adam Rankin Alexander, serving from 1825–1827
Pryor Lea, serving from 1827–1831
Robert Desha, serving from 1827–1831
John Bell, serving from 1827–1835
Davy Crockett, serving from 1827–1831, 1833–1835
James Israel Standifer, serving from 1829–1835
Cave Johnson, serving from 1829–1837, 1839–1845
- Thomas Dickens Arnold (Anti-Jacksonian), serving from 1831–1833
William Hall, serving from 1831–1833
William Fitzgerald, serving from 1831–1833
Samuel Bunch, serving from 1833–1835
Luke Lea, serving from 1833–1835
John B. Forester, serving from 1833–1835
Balie Peyton, serving from 1833–1835
David W. Dickinson, serving from 1833–1835
William Marshall Inge, serving from 1833–1835
William Claiborne Dunlap, serving from 1833–1837
- William Blount Carter (Anti-Jacksonian), serving from 1835–1837
- Samuel Bunch (Anti-Jacksonian), serving from 1835–1837
- Luke Lea (Anti-Jacksonian), serving from 1835–1837
- James Israel Standifer (Anti-Jacksonian), serving from 1835–1837
- John B. Forester (Anti-Jacksonian), serving from 1835–1837
- Balie Peyton (Anti-Jacksonian), serving from 1835–1837
- John Bell (Anti-Jacksonian), serving from 1835–1837
- Abram Poindexter Maury (Anti-Jacksonian), serving from 1835–1837
- Ebenezer J. Shields (Anti-Jacksonian), serving from 1835–1837
Adam Huntsman, serving from 1835–1837
- William Blount Carter (Whig), serving from 1837–1841
Abraham McClellan, serving from 1837–1843
- Joseph Lanier Williams (Whig), serving from 1837–1843
- James Israel Standifer (Whig), serving from 1837
Hopkins Lacy Turney, serving from 1837–1843
- William B. Campbell (Whig), serving from 1837–1843
- John Bell (Whig), serving from 1837–1841
- Abram Poindexter Maury (Whig), serving from 1837–1839
- Ebenezer J. Shields (Whig), serving from 1837–1839
- Richard Cheatham (Whig), serving from 1837–1839
- John Wesley Crockett (Whig), serving from 1837–1841
- Christopher Harris Williams (Whig), serving from 1837–1843,1849–1853
- William Stone (Whig), serving from 1837–1839
Julius W. Blackwell, serving from 1839–1841,1843–1845
- Meredith Poindexter Gentry (Whig ), serving from 1839–1843, 1845–1853
Harvey Magee Watterson, serving from 1839–1843
Aaron V. Brown, serving from 1839–1845
- Thomas Dickens Arnold (Whig), serving from 1841–1843
- Thomas Jefferson Campbell (Whig), serving from 1841–1843
- Robert Looney Caruthers (Whig), serving from 1841–1843
- Milton Brown (Whig), serving from 1841–1847
Andrew Johnson, serving from 1843–1853
- William Tandy Senter (Whig), serving from 1843–1845
Alvan Cullom, serving from 1843–1847
George Washington Jones, serving from 1843–1859
- David W. Dickinson (Whig), serving from 1843–1845
- Joseph Hopkins Peyton (Whig), serving from 1843–1845
- John Baptista Ashe (Whig), serving from 1843–1845
- William Michael Cocke (Whig), serving from 1845–1849
- John Hervey Crozier (Whig), serving from 1845–1849
Barclay Martin, serving from 1845–1847
Lucien Bonaparte Chase, serving from 1845–1849
Frederick Perry Stanton, serving from 1845–1855
- Edwin Hickman Ewing (Whig), serving from 1845–1847
Hugh Lawson White Hill, serving from 1847–1849
James Houston Thomas, serving from 1847–1851, 1859–1861
- Washington Barrow (Whig), serving from 1847–1849
- William T. Haskell (Whig), serving from 1847–1849
- Albert Galiton Watkins (Whig), serving from 1849–1853
- Josiah M. Anderson (Whig), serving from 1849–1851
John Houston Savage, serving from 1849–1853, 1855–1859
Andrew Ewing, serving from 1849–1851
Isham G. Harris, serving from 1849–1853
William Montgomery Churchwell, serving from 1851–1855
William Hawkins Polk, serving from 1851–1853
- William Cullom (Whig), serving from 1851–1855
Brookins Campbell, serving from 1853
Samuel Axley Smith, serving from 1853–1859
- Charles Ready (Whig), serving from 1853–1855
- Robert Malone Bugg (Whig), serving from 1853–1855
- Felix Zollicoffer (Whig), serving from 1853–1855
- Emerson Etheridge (Whig), serving from 1853–1855
- Nathaniel Green Taylor (Whig), serving from 1854–1855
Albert Galiton Watkins, serving from 1855–1859
(William Henry Sneed (Know Nothing), serving from 1855–1857
- Charles Ready (Know Nothing), serving from 1855–1859
John Vines Wright, serving from 1855–1861
- Felix Zollicoffer (Know Nothing), serving from 1855–1859
- Emerson Etheridge (Know Nothing), serving from 1855–1857
- Thomas Rivers (Know Nothing), serving from 1855–1857
- Horace Maynard (Know Nothing), serving from 1857–1859
John DeWitt Clinton Atkins, serving from 1857–1859, 1873–1883
William Tecumsah Avery, serving from 1857–1861
- Thomas Amos Rogers Nelson (Opposition), serving from 1859–1861
- Horace Maynard (Opposition), serving from 1859–1861
- Reese Bowen Brabson (Opposition), serving from 1859–1861
- William Brickly Stokes (Opposition), serving from 1859–1861
- Robert Hopkins Hatton (Opposition), serving from 1859–1861
- James Minor Quarles (Opposition), serving from 1859–1861
- Emerson Etheridge (Opposition), serving from 1859–1861
- Horace Maynard (Unionist), serving from 1861–1863
- George Washington Bridges (Unionist), serving in 1863
- Andrew Jackson Clements (Unionist), serving from 1861–1863
- Nathaniel Green Taylor (Unionist), serving from 1866–1867
- Horace Maynard (Unionist), serving from 1866–1867
William Brickly Stokes, serving from 1866–1871
- Edmund Cooper (Unionist), serving from 1866–1867
- William B. Campbell (Unionist), serving from 1866–1867
- Samuel Mayes Arnell (Unionist), serving from 1866–1867
- Isaac Roberts Hawkins (Unionist), serving from 1866–1867
- John W. Leftwich (Unionist), serving from 1866–1867
Samuel Mayes Arnell , serving from 1867–1871
Roderick R. Butler, serving from 1867–1875
Isaac Roberts Hawkins, serving from 1867–1871
James Mullins, serving from 1867–1869
John Trimble, serving from 1867–1869
David Alexander Nunn, serving from 1867–1869, 1873–1875
Lewis Tillman, serving from 1869–1871
William Farrand Prosser, serving from 1869–1871
William Jay Smith, serving from 1869–1871
Abraham Ellison Garrett, serving from 1871–1873
John Morgan Bright, serving from 1871–1881
Edward Isaac Golladay, serving from 1871–1873
Washington C. Whitthorne, serving from 1871–1883, 1887–1891
Robert Porter Caldwell, serving from 1871–1873
William Wirt Vaughan, serving from 1871–1873
Jacob Montgomery Thornburgh, serving from 1873–1879
William Crutchfield, serving from 1873–1875
Horace Harrison, serving from 1873–1875
Barbour Lewis, serving from 1873–1875
Horace Maynard, serving from 1867–1875
William McFarland, serving from 1875–1877
George Gibbs Dibrell, serving from 1875–1885
Samuel McClary Fite, serving in 1875
John Ford House, serving from 1875–1883
William Parker Caldwell, serving from 1875–1879
H. Casey Young, serving from 1875–1881, 1883–1885
Haywood Yancey Riddle, serving from 1875–1879
James Henry Randolph, serving from 1877–1879
Robert L. Taylor, serving from 1879–1881
Leonidas C. Houk, serving from 1879–1891
Benton McMillin, serving from 1879–1899
Charles Bryson Simonton, serving from 1879–1883
Augustus Herman Pettibone, serving from 1881–1887
Richard Warner, serving from 1881–1885
William Robert Moore, serving from 1881–1883
Andrew Jackson Caldwell, serving from 1883–1887
John Goff Ballentine, serving from 1883–1887
John May Taylor, serving from 1883–1887
Rice Alexander Pierce, serving from 1883–1885, 1889–1893, 1897–1905
John R. Neal, serving from 1885–1889
James D. Richardson, serving from 1885–1905
Presley T. Glass, serving from 1885–1889
Zachary Taylor, serving from 1885–1887
Roderick R. Butler, serving from 1887–1889
Joseph E. Washington, serving from 1887–1897
Benjamin A. Enloe, serving from 1887–1895
James Phelan, serving from 1887–1891
Alfred A. Taylor, serving from 1889–1895
H. Clay Evans, serving from 1889–1891
Henry C. Snodgrass, serving from 1891–1895
Nicholas N. Cox, serving from 1891–1901
Josiah Patterson, serving from 1891–1897
John C. Houk, serving from 1891–1895
James C. McDearmon, serving from 1893–1897
William Coleman Anderson, serving from 1895–1897
Henry R. Gibson, serving from 1895–1905
Foster V. Brown, serving from 1895–1897
John E. McCall, serving from 1895–1897
Walter P. Brownlow, serving from 1897–1910
John A. Moon, serving from 1897–1921
John W. Gaines, serving from 1897–1909
Thetus W. Sims, serving from 1897–1921
Edward W. Carmack, serving from 1897–1901
Charles Edward Snodgrass, serving from 1899–1903
Lemuel P. Padgett, serving from 1901–1922
Malcolm R. Patterson, serving from 1901–1906
Morgan Cassius Fitzpatrick, serving from 1903–1905
Nathan W. Hale, serving from 1905–1909
Mounce G. Butler, serving from 1905–1907
William C. Houston, serving from 1905–1919
Finis J. Garrett, serving from 1905–1929
Cordell Hull, serving from 1907–1921, 1923–1931
George W. Gordon, serving from 1907–1911
Richard W. Austin, serving from 1909–1919
Joseph W. Byrns, serving from 1909–1936
Zachary D. Massey, serving from 1910–1911
Sam R. Sells, serving from 1911–1921
Kenneth D. McKellar, serving from 1911–1917
Hubert Fisher, serving from 1917–1931
J. Will Taylor, serving from 1919–1939
Ewin L. Davis, serving from 1919–1933
B. Carroll Reece, serving from 1921–1931, 1933–1947, 1951–1961
Joseph Edgar Brown, serving from 1921–1923
Wynne F. Clouse, serving from 1921–1923
Lon A. Scott, serving from 1921–1923
Clarence W. Turner, serving from 1922–1923, 1933–1939
Sam D. McReynolds, serving from 1923–1939
William C. Salmon, serving from 1923–1925
Gordon Browning, serving from 1923–1935
Edward E. Eslick, serving from 1925–1932
Jere Cooper, serving from 1929–1957
Oscar B. Lovette, serving from 1931–1933
John R. Mitchell, serving from 1931–1939
Edward H. Crump, serving from 1931–1935
Willa McC. Blake Eslick, serving from 1932–1933
Herron C. Pearson, serving from 1935–1943
Walter "Clift" Chandler, serving from 1935–1940
Richard M. Atkinson, serving from 1937–1939
Al Gore, Sr., serving from 1939–1944, 1945–1953
Jo Byrns, Jr., serving from 1939–1941
John Jennings, Jr., serving from 1939–1951
Estes Kefauver, serving from 1939–1949
W. Wirt Courtney, serving from 1939–1949
Clifford Davis, serving from 1940–1965
J. Percy Priest, serving from 1941–1956
Jim N. McCord, serving from 1943–1945
Tom J. Murray, serving from 1943–1966
Harold Earthman, serving from 1945–1947
Dayton E. Phillips, serving from 1947–1951
Joe L. Evins, serving from 1947–1977
James B. Frazier, Jr., serving from 1949–1963
James P. Sutton, serving from 1949–1955
Howard Baker, Sr., serving from 1951–1964
Ross Bass, serving from 1955–1964
J. Carlton Loser, serving from 1957–1963
Fats Everett, serving from 1958–1969
Louise G. Reece, serving from 1961–1963
Jimmy Quillen, serving from 1963–1997
Bill Brock, serving from 1963–1971
Dick Fulton, serving from 1963–1975
Irene Bailey Baker, serving from 1964–1965
John Duncan, Sr., serving from 1965–1988
William R. Anderson, serving from 1965–1973
George W. Grider, serving from 1965–1967
Ray Blanton, serving from 1967–1973
Dan Kuykendall, serving from 1967–1975
Ed Jones, serving from 1969–1989
LaMar Baker, serving from 1971–1975
Robin L. Beard, Jr., serving from 1973–1983
Marilyn Lloyd, serving from 1975–1995
Harold Ford, Sr., serving from 1975–1997
Clifford Allen, serving from 1975–1978
Al Gore, serving from 1977–1985
Bill Boner, serving from 1979–1987
Jim Cooper, serving from 1983–1995, 2003–present
Don Sundquist, serving from 1983–1995
Bart Gordon, serving from 1985–2011
John Duncan, serving from 1988–present
Bob Clement, serving from 1988–2003
John S. Tanner, serving from 1989–2011
Zach Wamp, serving from 1995–2011
Van Hilleary, serving from 1995–2003
Ed Bryant, serving from 1995–2003
William L. Jenkins, serving from 1997–2007
Harold E. Ford, Jr., serving from 1997–2007
Lincoln Davis, serving from 2003–2011
Marsha Blackburn, serving from 2003–present
David Davis, serving from 2007–2009
Steve Cohen, serving from 2007–present
Phil Roe, serving from 2009–present
Chuck Fleischmann, serving from 2011–present
Scott DesJarlais, serving from 2011–present
Diane Black, serving from 2011–present
Stephen Fincher, serving from 2011–present
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