The following table indicates the party of elected officials in the U.S. state

U.S. state

A U.S. state is any one of the 50 federated states of the United States of America that share sovereignty with the federal government. Because of this shared sovereignty, an American is a citizen both of the federal entity and of his or her state of domicile. Four states use the official title of...

 of Tennessee

Tennessee

Tennessee is a U.S. state located in the Southeastern United States. It has a population of 6,346,105, making it the nation's 17th-largest state by population, and covers , making it the 36th-largest by total land area...

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• Governor

The table also indicates the historical party composition in the:

• State Senate
  Tennessee Senate
  The Tennessee Senate is the upper house of the Tennessee state legislature, which is known formally as the Tennessee General Assembly.The Tennessee Senate, according to the state constitution of 1870, is composed of 33 members, one-third the size of the Tennessee House of Representatives. Senators...
  
  
• State House of Representatives
  Tennessee House of Representatives
  The Tennessee House of Representatives is the lower house of the Tennessee General Assembly, the state legislature of the U.S. state of Tennessee.-Constitutional requirements:...
  
  
• State delegation to the U.S. Senate
• State delegation to the U.S. House of Representatives

For years in which a presidential election was held, the table indicates which party's nominees received the state's electoral votes.

The parties are as follows: (CCR), (D), (DM), (DR), (FA), (R), (W), and .

Year	Executive office	|State Legislature	|United States Congress United States congressional delegations from Tennessee These are tables of congressional delegations from Tennessee to the United States Senate and United States House of Representatives.Like some states, Tennessee has undergone too much demographic change for some districts to be seen as a continuation of the same numbered district before...	|Electoral College votes United States presidential election Elections for President and Vice President of the United States are indirect elections in which voters cast ballots for a slate of electors of the U.S. Electoral College, who in turn directly elect the President and Vice President...
	Governor	State Senate Tennessee Senate The Tennessee Senate is the upper house of the Tennessee state legislature, which is known formally as the Tennessee General Assembly.The Tennessee Senate, according to the state constitution of 1870, is composed of 33 members, one-third the size of the Tennessee House of Representatives. Senators...	State House Tennessee House of Representatives The Tennessee House of Representatives is the lower house of the Tennessee General Assembly, the state legislature of the U.S. state of Tennessee.-Constitutional requirements:...	U.S. Senator (Class I)	U.S. Senator (Class II)	U.S. House
1790	William Blount William Blount William Blount, was a United States statesman. He was a delegate to the Constitutional Convention for North Carolina, the first and only governor of the Southwest Territory, and Democratic-Republican Senator from Tennessee . He played a major role in establishing the state of Tennessee. He was the...  (DR)
1791
1792
1793
1794
1795
1796	John Sevier John Sevier John Sevier served four years as the only governor of the State of Franklin and twelve years as Governor of Tennessee. As a U.S. Representative from Tennessee from 1811 until his death...  (DR)
1797
1798
1799
1800
1801	Archibald Roane Archibald Roane Archibald Roane was the second Governor of Tennessee, serving from 1801 to 1803.-Biography:Roane was born in 1759 or 1760 in Derry Township, Pennsylvania, then a part of Lancaster County. He was the son of Andrew and Margaret Walker Roane...  (DR)
1802
1803	John Sevier (DR)
1804
1805
1806
1807
1808
1809	Willie Blount Willie Blount Willie Blount served as Governor of Tennessee from 1809 to 1815. He was the younger half-brother of William Blount, representative of North Carolina to the Continental Congress and governor of the Southwest Territory....  (DR)
1810
1811
1812
1813
1814
1815	Joseph McMinn Joseph McMinn Joseph McMinn was governor of Tennessee from 1815 to 1821.-Biography:A native of Pennsylvania and a Quaker, he arrived in Tennessee in 1787. He was twice elected to serve in the legislature of the Territory of the United States South of the River Ohio , in 1794 and 1796...  (DR)
1816
1817
1818
1819
1820
1821	William Carroll (DR)
1822
1823
1824
1825
1826
1827	Sam Houston Sam Houston Samuel Houston, known as Sam Houston , was a 19th-century American statesman, politician, and soldier. He was born in Timber Ridge in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia, of Scots-Irish descent. Houston became a key figure in the history of Texas and was elected as the first and third President of...  (DR)
1828
1829	William Hall (D)
	William Carroll (D)
1830
1831
1832
1833
1834
1835	Newton Cannon Newton Cannon Newton Cannon was an American politician who was a member of the Tennessee State Senate from 1811 to 1812 and 1829 to 1830, the U.S. House of Representatives from 1814 to 1817 and 1819 to 1823, and Governor of the U.S...  (W)
1836
1837
1838
1839	James K. Polk James K. Polk James Knox Polk was the 11th President of the United States . Polk was born in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina. He later lived in and represented Tennessee. A Democrat, Polk served as the 17th Speaker of the House of Representatives and the 12th Governor of Tennessee...  (D)
1840
1841	James C. Jones James C. Jones James Chamberlain Jones was the Governor of Tennessee from 1841 to 1845, and a United States Senator from that state from 1851 to 1857...  (W)
1842
1843
1844
1845	Aaron V. Brown Aaron V. Brown Aaron Venable Brown was a Governor of Tennessee and Postmaster General in the Buchanan administration. He was also the law partner of James K. Polk.-Biography:...  (D)
1846
1847	Neill S. Brown Neill S. Brown Neill Smith Brown was Governor of Tennessee from 1847 to 1849.-Biography:Neill Brown was born in Giles County, Tennessee. He taught school in his native county to work his way through college. He was admitted to the bar in 1834, and later fought with the 1st Tennessee in the Second Seminole War...  (W)
1848
1849	William Trousdale William Trousdale William Trousdale was Governor of Tennessee from 1849 to 1851.Trousdale was a protege of Andrew Jackson, having served under him in the Creek War and acquiring the nickname, "The War Horse of Sumner County" in that conflict. He was a Democrat...  (D)
1850
1851	William B. Campbell William B. Campbell William Bowen Campbell was governor of Tennessee from 1851 to 1853.-Biography:Campbell was born in Sumner County, Tennessee, later leaving to study law in Virginia. He returned to Tennessee in 1829 in order to establish a law practice at Carthage, in Smith County...  (W)
1852
1853	Andrew Johnson Andrew Johnson Andrew Johnson was the 17th President of the United States . As Vice-President of the United States in 1865, he succeeded Abraham Lincoln following the latter's assassination. Johnson then presided over the initial and contentious Reconstruction era of the United States following the American...  (D)
1854
1855
1856
1857	Isham G. Harris Isham G. Harris Isham Green Harris was an American politician. He served as Governor of Tennessee from 1857 to 1862 and as a U.S. Senator from 1877 until his death....  (D)
1858
1859
1860
1861
1862	Andrew Johnson (DM)
1863
1864
1865	Edward H. East Edward H. East Edward Hazzard East , also known as E. H. East, served as Secretary of State for the U.S. state of Tennessee from 1862-1865, having been appointed by Andrew Johnson, the military governor of the state under Union occupation during the American Civil War...  (R)
	William G. Brownlow (R)
1866
1867
1868
1869	Dewitt Clinton Senter Dewitt Clinton Senter Dewitt Clinton Senter was governor of Tennessee from 1869 to 1871.-Biography:Senter was the son of a Methodist minister and was born in McMinn County, Tennessee. He was admitted to the bar after reading law on his own and passing the examination, a fairly common practice of the era. He was first...  (R)
1870
1871	John C. Brown John C. Brown John Calvin Brown was a Confederate general during the American Civil War and the Governor of Tennessee from 1871 to 1875, the first Democrat to be elected to that position following the war.-Early life:...  (D)
1872
1873
1874
1875	James D. Porter, Jr. James D. Porter, Jr. James Davis Porter was governor of the U.S. state of Tennessee from 1875 to 1879.-Biography:A native of Paris, Tennessee, Porter graduated from the former University of Nashville at age 18. He was elected to the Tennessee General Assembly in 1859. When the American Civil War loomed, Porter sided...  (D)
1876
1877
1878
1879	Albert S. Marks Albert S. Marks Albert Smith Marks was governor of the U.S. state of Tennessee from 1879 to 1881. He was a Democrat. A former Confederate military officer who had lost a leg in the American Civil War and Chancery Court judge, he did not seek re-election and after his term resumed his practice as an...  (D)
1880
1881	Alvin Hawkins Alvin Hawkins Alvin Hawkins was governor of Tennessee from 1881 to 1883.-Biography:He was a native of Kentucky who had been brought to Tennessee at age four. He was admitted to the bar as an attorney in 1843 and opened a law practice...  (R)
1882
1883	William B. Bate William B. Bate William Brimage Bate was the governor of Tennessee from 1883 to 1887 and subsequently a United States Senator from Tennessee from 1887 until his death...  (D)
1884
1885
1886
1887	Robert Love Taylor Robert Love Taylor Robert Love Taylor was a U.S. Representative from Tennessee from 1879 to 1881, Governor of Tennessee from 1887 to 1891 and from 1897 to 1899, and subsequently a United States Senator from that state from 1907 until his death. He is notable for winning the governor's office in an election against...  (D)
1888
1889
1890
1891	John P. Buchanan John P. Buchanan John Price Buchanan was Governor of the U.S. State of Tennessee from 1891 to 1893. He was a native of Williamson County, Tennessee....  (FA)
1892
1893	Peter Turney Peter Turney Peter Turney was governor of the U.S. state of Tennessee from 1893 to 1897.- Biography :Prior to becoming governor, Turney was a prominent attorney in Winchester, Tennessee, practicing law with his father, and a Confederate colonel in the Civil War...  (D)
1894
1895
1896
1897	Robert Love Taylor (D)
1898
1899	Benton McMillin Benton McMillin Benton McMillin was governor of the U.S. state of Tennessee from 1899 to 1903. A Democrat, he was a native of Monroe County, Kentucky and an attorney.-Biography:...  (D)
1900
1901
1902
1903	James B. Frazier James B. Frazier James Beriah Frazier was Governor of Tennessee from 1903 to 1905 and subsequently a United States Senator from Tennessee from 1905 to 1911.-Biography:...  (D)
1904
1905	John I. Cox John I. Cox John Isaac Cox was Governor of Tennessee from 1905 to 1907.-Biography:Cox was born in Sullivan County, Tennessee, on November 23, 1855, and was the son of a Confederate soldier, which was less common in East Tennessee than in the rest of the state, as East Tennessee was one of the Southern...  (D)
1906
1907	Malcolm R. Patterson Malcolm R. Patterson Malcolm Rice Patterson was the governor of the U.S. state of Tennessee from 1907 to 1911.-Biography:A native of Somerville, Alabama, Patterson was a son of Colonel Josiah Patterson, a distinguished Confederate cavalry officer and a United States Representative for Tennessee, and his wife Josephine...  (D)
1908
1909
1910
1911	Ben W. Hooper Ben W. Hooper Ben Walter Hooper was governor of the U.S. state of Tennessee from 1911 to 1915.-Biography:Hooper, who was of illegitimate birth, spent part of his childhood in an orphanage, was unofficially "adopted" by members of his rural Baptist church, and was belatedly acknowledged by his natural father, a...  (R)
1912
1913
1914
1915	Tom C. Rye (D)
1916
1917
1918
1919	A. H. Roberts (D)
1920
1921	Alfred A. Taylor Alfred A. Taylor Alfred Alexander Taylor, nickname Alf Taylor , was a lawyer and politician, serving as United States Congressman from 1889–1895, and later elected the Governor of Tennessee, serving from 1921 to 1923. Notably, in 1886 he lost the gubernatorial race to his younger brother Robert, a Democrat.- Early...  (R)
1922
1923	Austin Peay Austin Peay Austin Peay was Governor of Tennessee from 1923 until his death in 1927.-Biography:Peay, a native of Kentucky, moved to Clarksville, Tennessee and opened a law practice in 1896. He was first elected to the Tennessee House of Representatives in 1901 and re-elected in 1903...  (D)
1924
1925
1926
1927	Henry Hollis Horton Henry Hollis Horton Henry Hollis Horton was Governor of Tennessee from 1927 to 1933.-Biography:Horton was born in Alabama into the family of a Baptist minister. He taught school for six years before being admitted to the bar in 1894. He served several terms in the legislature, and was elected speaker of the...  (D)
1928
1929
1930
1931
1932
1933	Harry Hill McAlister (D)
1934
1935
1936
1937	Gordon Browning Gordon Browning Gordon Weaver Browning was an American politician who represented Tennessee in the United States Congress and was later Governor of Tennessee from 1937 to 1939 and again from 1949 to 1953.-Biography:...  (D)
1938
1939	Prentice Cooper Prentice Cooper William Prentice Cooper was an American politician and Governor of Tennessee from 1939 to 1945.-Life and career:A native of Bedford County, Tennessee, he attended Vanderbilt University and then Harvard University...  (D)
1940
1941
1942
1943
1944
1945	Jim Nance McCord Jim Nance McCord Jim Nance McCord was an American journalist and politician who served one term in the U.S. House of Representatives and two terms as Governor of Tennessee ....  (D)
1946
1947
1948
1949	Gordon Browning (D)
1950
1951
1952
1953	Frank G. Clement Frank G. Clement Frank Goad Clement served as Governor of Tennessee from 1953 to 1959, and again from 1963 to 1967.-Early life:...  (D)			Al Gore, Sr. (D)
1954
1955
1956
1957
1958
1959	Buford Ellington Buford Ellington Earl Buford Ellington , a native of Mississippi, was the 42nd Governor of Tennessee from 1959 to 1963 and again from 1967 until 1971....  (D)
1960
1961
1962
1963	Frank G. Clement (D)
1964
1965
1966
1967	Buford Ellington (D)				Howard Baker Howard Baker Howard Henry Baker, Jr. is a former Senate Majority Leader, Republican U.S. Senator from Tennessee, White House Chief of Staff, and a former United States Ambassador to Japan.Known in Washington, D.C...  (R)	5D, 4R
1968							Richard Nixon and Spiro Agnew Spiro Agnew Spiro Theodore Agnew was the 39th Vice President of the United States , serving under President Richard Nixon, and the 55th Governor of Maryland...  (R)
1969
1970
1971	Winfield Dunn Winfield Dunn Bryant Winfield Culberson Dunn was the 43rd Governor of Tennessee, from 1971 to 1975.-Biography:Dunn was born in Meridian, Mississippi. He graduated from the University of Mississippi in 1950 with a B.B.A., and from the University of Tennessee Medical Units in Memphis in 1955 with a D.D.S. Dunn...  (R)			Bill Brock Bill Brock William Emerson "Bill" Brock III is a former Republican United States senator from Tennessee, having served from 1971 to 1977. He is the grandson of William Emerson Brock I, who was a Democratic U.S. senator from Tennessee from 1929 to 1931.-Early life and career:Brock was a native of Chattanooga,...  (R)
1972
1973						4R, 3D
1974
1975	Ray Blanton Ray Blanton Leonard Ray Blanton was the 44th Governor of Tennessee from 1975 to 1979. Blanton's administration was rife with corruption.-Early life and Congress:...  (D)					5D, 3R
1976							Jimmy Carter Jimmy Carter James Earl "Jimmy" Carter, Jr. is an American politician who served as the 39th President of the United States and was the recipient of the 2002 Nobel Peace Prize, the only U.S. President to have received the Prize after leaving office...  and Walter Mondale Walter Mondale Walter Frederick "Fritz" Mondale is an American Democratic Party politician, who served as the 42nd Vice President of the United States , under President Jimmy Carter, and as a United States Senator for Minnesota...  (D)
1977				Jim Sasser Jim Sasser James Ralph "Jim" Sasser is an American politician and attorney. A Democrat, Sasser served three terms as a United States Senator from Tennessee and was Chairman of the Senate Budget Committee...  (D)
1978
1979	Lamar Alexander Lamar Alexander Andrew Lamar Alexander is the senior United States Senator from Tennessee and Conference Chair of the Republican Party. He was previously the 45th Governor of Tennessee from 1979 to 1987, United States Secretary of Education from 1991 to 1993 under President George H. W...  (R)
1980							Ronald Reagan Ronald Reagan Ronald Wilson Reagan was the 40th President of the United States , the 33rd Governor of California and, prior to that, a radio, film and television actor....  and George H.W. Bush (R)
1981
1982
1983						6D, 3R
1984
1985					Al Gore (D)
1986
1987	Ned McWherter Ned McWherter Ned Ray McWherter was an American politician who served as the 46th Governor of Tennessee from 1987 to 1995. He was a Democrat.McWherter was born in Palmersville, Weakley County, Tennessee...  (D)
1988							George H.W. Bush and Dan Quayle Dan Quayle James Danforth "Dan" Quayle served as the 44th Vice President of the United States, serving with President George H. W. Bush . He served as a U.S. Representative and U.S. Senator from the state of Indiana....  (R)
1989
1990
1991
1992							Bill Clinton Bill Clinton William Jefferson "Bill" Clinton is an American politician who served as the 42nd President of the United States from 1993 to 2001. Inaugurated at age 46, he was the third-youngest president. He took office at the end of the Cold War, and was the first president of the baby boomer generation...  and Al Gore Al Gore Albert Arnold "Al" Gore, Jr. served as the 45th Vice President of the United States , under President Bill Clinton. He was the Democratic Party's nominee for President in the 2000 U.S. presidential election....  (D)
1993					Harlan Matthews (D)
1994					Fred Thompson (R)
1995	Don Sundquist Don Sundquist Donald Kenneth Sundquist is a former governor and congressman from Tennessee. A Republican, he served as the 47th Governor of Tennessee from 1995 to 2003...  (R)			Bill Frist Bill Frist William Harrison "Bill" Frist, Sr. is an American physician, businessman, and politician. He began his career as an heir and major stockholder to the for-profit hospital chain of Hospital Corporation of America. Frist later served two terms as a Republican United States Senator representing...  (R)		5R, 4D
1996
1997
1998
1999
2000							George W. Bush George W. Bush George Walker Bush is an American politician who served as the 43rd President of the United States, from 2001 to 2009. Before that, he was the 46th Governor of Texas, having served from 1995 to 2000....  and Dick Cheney Dick Cheney Richard Bruce "Dick" Cheney served as the 46th Vice President of the United States , under George W. Bush....  (R)
2001
2002
2003	Phil Bredesen Phil Bredesen Philip Norman "Phil" Bredesen Jr. was the 48th Governor of Tennessee, serving from 2003 to 2011. A member of the Democratic Party, he was first elected Governor in 2002, and was re-elected in 2006. He previously served as the fourth mayor of Nashville and Davidson County from 1991 to...  (D)				Lamar Alexander (R)	5D, 4R
2004
2005
2006
2007		17R, 16D	53D, 46R	Bob Corker Bob Corker Robert Phillips "Bob" Corker, Jr. is the junior United States Senator from Tennessee. Before his election to the Senate in 2006, he served as mayor of Chattanooga, Tennessee from 2001 to 2005. Corker was a businessman prior to holding public office.-Early life and family:Born in Orangeburg, South...  (R)
		16R, 16D, 1I
		16R, 15D, 1I
		16R, 16D, 1I
2008							John McCain John McCain John Sidney McCain III is the senior United States Senator from Arizona. He was the Republican nominee for president in the 2008 United States election....  and Sarah Palin Sarah Palin Sarah Louise Palin is an American politician, commentator and author. As the Republican Party nominee for Vice President in the 2008 presidential election, she was the first Alaskan on the national ticket of a major party and first Republican woman nominated for the vice-presidency.She was...  (R)
2009		19R, 14D	50R, 49D
			49R, 49D, 1CCR
2010			50R, 48D, 1I
2011	Bill Haslam Bill Haslam William Edward "Bill" Haslam is the 49th and current Governor of Tennessee. A member of the Republican Party, Haslam was elected to office in 2010...  (R)	20R, 13D	64R, 34D, 1I			7R, 2D
Year	Governor	State Senate Tennessee Senate The Tennessee Senate is the upper house of the Tennessee state legislature, which is known formally as the Tennessee General Assembly.The Tennessee Senate, according to the state constitution of 1870, is composed of 33 members, one-third the size of the Tennessee House of Representatives. Senators...	State House Tennessee House of Representatives The Tennessee House of Representatives is the lower house of the Tennessee General Assembly, the state legislature of the U.S. state of Tennessee.-Constitutional requirements:...	U.S. Senator (Class I)	U.S. Senator (Class II)	U.S. House	|Electoral College votes United States presidential election Elections for President and Vice President of the United States are indirect elections in which voters cast ballots for a slate of electors of the U.S. Electoral College, who in turn directly elect the President and Vice President...
	Executive office	|State Legislature	|United States Congress United States congressional delegations from Tennessee These are tables of congressional delegations from Tennessee to the United States Senate and United States House of Representatives.Like some states, Tennessee has undergone too much demographic change for some districts to be seen as a continuation of the same numbered district before...

See also

• Politics in Tennessee