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List of United States Representatives from Tennessee
From Ballotpedia
Tennessee was admitted as the 16th state to the United States of America on June 1, 1796. As of September 2025, a total of 273 individuals have represented Tennessee in the U.S. House.
Current members
The current members of the U.S. House from Tennessee are:
| Office | Name | Party | Date assumed office | Date term ends |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| U.S. House Tennessee District 1 | Diana Harshbarger | Republican | January 3, 2021 | January 3, 2027 |
| U.S. House Tennessee District 2 | Tim Burchett | Republican | January 3, 2019 | January 3, 2027 |
| U.S. House Tennessee District 3 | Charles J. Fleischmann | Republican | January 3, 2011 | January 3, 2027 |
| U.S. House Tennessee District 4 | Scott DesJarlais | Republican | January 3, 2011 | January 3, 2027 |
| U.S. House Tennessee District 5 | Andy Ogles | Republican | January 3, 2023 | January 3, 2027 |
| U.S. House Tennessee District 6 | John Rose | Republican | January 3, 2019 | January 3, 2027 |
| U.S. House Tennessee District 8 | David Kustoff | Republican | January 3, 2017 | January 3, 2027 |
| U.S. House Tennessee District 9 | Steve Cohen | Democratic | January 3, 2007 | January 3, 2027 |
District map
Historical representatives
The following individuals were elected to the U.S. House from Tennessee.
2000s
| Historical Representation to the U.S. House by Party in the 2000s from Tennessee | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Total | |||
| Democratic | 2 | |||
| Republican | 13 | |||
| Total Representatives | 15 | |||
| Representatives to the U.S. House from Tennessee | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Representative | Years Served | Party | ||||||
| Lincoln Davis | 2003–2011 | Democratic | ||||||
| Marsha Blackburn | 2003–2019 | Republican | ||||||
| David Davis | 2007–2009 | Republican | ||||||
| Steve Cohen | 2007–present | Democratic | ||||||
| Phil Roe | 2009–2021 | Republican | ||||||
| Chuck Fleischmann | 2011–present | Republican | ||||||
| Scott DesJarlais | 2011–present | Republican | ||||||
| Diane Black | 2011–2019 | Republican | ||||||
| Stephen Fincher | 2011–2017 | Republican | ||||||
| David Kustoff | 2017–present | Republican | ||||||
| Tim Burchett | 2019–present | Republican | ||||||
| John Rose | 2019–present | Republican | ||||||
| Mark Green | 2019–2025 | Republican | ||||||
| Diana Harshbarger | 2021–present | Republican | ||||||
| Andy Ogles | 2023–present | Republican | ||||||
1900s
| Historical Representation to the U.S. House by Party in the 1900s from Tennessee | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Total | |||
| Democratic | 54 | |||
| Republican | 27 | |||
| Total Representatives | 81 | |||
| Representatives to the U.S. House from Tennessee | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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, 2003–2023 | Democratic | ||||||
| Don Sundquist | 1983–1995 | Republican | ||||||
| Bart Gordon | 1985–2011 | Democratic | ||||||
| John Duncan | 1988–2019 | 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 | ||||||
1800s
| Historical Representation to the U.S. House by Party in the 1800s from Tennessee | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Total | |||
| Democratic | 72 | |||
| Republican | 24 | |||
| Democratic-Republican | 25 | |||
| Whig | 20 | |||
| Know Nothing | 2 | |||
| Opposition | 4 | |||
| Unionist | 4 | |||
| Multiple party affiliations | 26 | |||
| Total Representatives | 177 | |||
| Representatives to the U.S. House from Tennessee | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | 1819–1827 | Democratic-Republican; Democratic | ||||||
| Robert Allen | 1819–1827 | Democratic-Republican; Democratic | ||||||
| Henry Hunter Bryan | 1819–1821 | Democratic-Republican | ||||||
| Adam Rankin Alexander | 1823–1827 | Democratic-Republican; Democratic | ||||||
| John Blair | 1823–1835 | Democratic-Republican; Democratic | ||||||
| Sam Houston | 1823–1827 | Democratic | ||||||
| Jacob C. Isacks | 1823–1833 | Democratic-Republican; Democratic | ||||||
| James T. Sandford | 1823–1825 | Democratic-Republican | ||||||
| James Israel Standifer | 1823–1825; 1829–1837 | Democratic-Republican; Democratic; Anti-Jacksonian; Whig | ||||||
| James Coffield Mitchell | 1825–1829 | Democratic | ||||||
| James K. Polk | 1825–1839 | Democratic | ||||||
| John Hartwell Marable | 1825–1829 | Democratic | ||||||
| Pryor Lea | 1827–1831 | Democratic | ||||||
| Robert Desha | 1827–1831 | Democratic | ||||||
| John Bell | 1827–1841 | Democratic; Anti-Jacksonian; Whig | ||||||
| Davy Crockett | 1827–1831, 1833–1835 | Democratic | ||||||
| Cave Johnson | 1829–1837, 1839–1845 | Democratic | ||||||
| Thomas Dickens Arnold | 1831–1833; 1841–1843 | Anti-Jacksonian; Whig | ||||||
| William Hall | 1831–1833 | Democratic | ||||||
| William Fitzgerald | 1831–1833 | Democratic | ||||||
| Samuel Bunch | 1833–1837 | Democratic; Anti-Jacksonian | ||||||
| Luke Lea | 1833–1837 | Democratic; Anti-Jacksonian | ||||||
| John B. Forester | 1833–1837 | Democratic; Anti-Jacksonian | ||||||
| Balie Peyton | 1833–1837 | Democratic; Anti-Jacksonian | ||||||
| David W. Dickinson | 1833–1835; 1843–1845 | Democratic; Whig | ||||||
| William Marshall Inge | 1833–1835 | Democratic | ||||||
| William Claiborne Dunlap | 1833–1837 | Democratic | ||||||
| William Blount Carter | 1835–1841 | Anti-Jacksonian; Whig | ||||||
| Abram Poindexter Maury | 1835–1839 | Anti-Jacksonian; Whig | ||||||
| Ebenezer J. Shields | 1835–1839 | Anti-Jacksonian; Whig | ||||||
| Adam Huntsman | 1835–1837 | Democratic | ||||||
| Abraham McClellan | 1837–1843 | Democratic | ||||||
| Joseph Lanier Williams | 1837–1843 | Whig | ||||||
| Hopkins Lacy Turney | 1837–1843 | Democratic | ||||||
| William B. Campbell | 1837–1843; 1866–1867 | Whig; Unionist | ||||||
| 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 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 | ||||||
| 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; 1855–1859 | Whig; Democratic | ||||||
| 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 | 1853–1859 | Whig; Know Nothing | ||||||
| Robert Malone Bugg | 1853–1855 | Whig | ||||||
| Felix Zollicoffer | 1853–1859 | Whig; Know Nothing | ||||||
| Emerson Etheridge | 1853–1857; 1859–1863 | Whig; Know Nothing; Opposition | ||||||
| Nathaniel Green Taylor | 1854–1855; 1866–1867 | Whig; Unionist | ||||||
| William Henry Sneed | 1855–1857 | Know Nothing | ||||||
| John Vines Wright | 1855–1861 | Democratic | ||||||
| Thomas Rivers | 1855–1857 | Know Nothing | ||||||
| Horace Maynard | 1857–1863; 1865–1875 | Know Nothing; Opposition; Unionist; Republican | ||||||
| John DeWitt Clinton Atkins | 1857–1859, 1873–1883 | Democratic | ||||||
| William Tecumsah Avery | 1857–1861 | Democratic | ||||||
| Thomas Amos Rogers Nelson | 1859–1861 | Opposition | ||||||
| Reese Bowen Brabson | 1859–1861 | Opposition | ||||||
| William Brickly Stokes | 1859–1861; 1866–1871 | Opposition; Republican | ||||||
| Robert Hopkins Hatton | 1859–1861 | Opposition | ||||||
| James Minor Quarles | 1859–1861 | Opposition | ||||||
| George Washington Bridges | 1863 | Unionist | ||||||
| Andrew Jackson Clements | 1861–1863 | Unionist | ||||||
| Edmund Cooper | 1866–1867 | Unionist | ||||||
| Samuel Mayes Arnell | 1866–1871 | Unionist; Republican | ||||||
| Isaac Roberts Hawkins | 1866–1871 | Unionist; Republican | ||||||
| John W. Leftwich | 1866–1867 | Unionist | ||||||
| Roderick R. Butler | 1867–1875; 1887–1889 | 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 | ||||||
| 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 | ||||||
| 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 | ||||||
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See also
Senators
Marsha Blackburn (R)
Bill Hagerty (R)
Representatives
District 1
District 2
Tim Burchett (R)
District 3
District 4
Scott DesJarlais (R)
District 5
Andy Ogles (R)
District 6
John Rose (R)
District 7
Vacant
District 8
David Kustoff (R)
District 9
Steve Cohen (D)
Republican Party (9)
Democratic Party (1)
Vacancies (1)
