List of Tennessee Governors

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This list includes all governors of the US state of Tennessee and the only governor of the Southwest Territory that later became the state of Tennessee.

Southwest Territory

Surname Term of office Political party
William Blount 1790-1796 Democratic Republican

State of Tennessee

Surname Term of office Political party
John Sevier 1796-1801 Democratic Republican
Archibald Roane 1801-1803 Democratic Republican
John Sevier 1803-1809 Democratic Republican
Willie Blount 1809-1815 Democratic Republican
Joseph McMinn 1815-1821 Democratic Republican
William Carroll 1821-1827 Democratic Republican
Samuel Houston 1827-1829 Democratic Republican
William Hall 1829 Democratic Republican
William Carroll 1829-1835 democrat
Newton Cannon 1835-1839 Whig
James Knox Polk 1839-1841 democrat
James Chamberlain Jones 1841-1845 Whig
Aaron Venable Brown 1845-1847 democrat
Neill Smith Brown 1847-1849 Whig
William Trousdale 1849-1851 democrat
William Bowell Campbell 1851-1853 Whig
Andrew Johnson 1853-1857 democrat
Isham Green Harris 1857-1862 democrat
Andrew Johnson 1862-1865 democrat
William Gannaway Brownlow 1865-1869 republican
Dewitt Clinton Senter 1869-1871 republican
John Calvin Brown 1871-1875 democrat
James Davis Porter 1875-1879 democrat
Albert Smith Marks 1879-1881 democrat
Alvin Hawkins 1881-1883 republican
William Brimage Bate 1883-1887 democrat
Robert Love Taylor 1887-1891 democrat
John Price Buchanan 1891-1893 democrat
Peter Turney 1893-1897 democrat
Robert Love Taylor 1897-1899 democrat
Benton McMillin 1899-1903 democrat
James Beriah Frazier 1903-1905 democrat
John Isaac Cox 1905-1907 democrat
Malcolm Rice Patterson 1907-1911 democrat
Ben Walter Hooper 1911-1915 republican
Thomas Clarke Rye 1915-1919 democrat
Albert Houston Roberts 1919-1921 democrat
Alfred Alexander Taylor 1921-1923 republican
Austin Peay 1923-1927 democrat
Henry Hollis Horton 1927-1933 democrat
Harry Hill McAlister 1933-1937 democrat
Gordon Weaver Browning 1937-1939 democrat
William Prentice Cooper 1939-1945 democrat
Jim Nance McCord 1945-1949 democrat
Gordon Weaver Browning 1949-1953 democrat
Frank Goad Clement 1953-1959 democrat
Buford Ellington 1959-1963 democrat
Frank Goad Clement 1963-1967 democrat
Buford Ellington 1967-1971 democrat
Winfield Culberson Dunn 1971-1975 republican
Leonard Ray Blanton 1975-1979 democrat
Andrew Lamar Alexander 1979-1987 republican
Ned Ray McWherter 1987-1995 democrat
Donald Kenneth Sundquist 1995-2003 republican
Philip Norman Bredesen 2003-2011 democrat
William Edward Haslam 2011-2019 republican
William Byron Lee since 2019 republican

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