From Conservapedia
A list of governors from the state of Tennessee.[1]
| 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
| 2011-present
|
Notes
- ↑ http://www.nga.org/portal/site/nga/menuitem.8fd3d12ab65b304f8a278110501010a0?submit=Submit&State=TN
- ↑ Caruthers was never inaugurated, as Andrew Johnson was appointed military governor by President Lincoln.
- ↑ 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.
