List of Governors of Tennessee

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Governors of the State of Tennessee
Name	Term	Party	Life
John Sevier	1796-1801	Democratic-Republican	1745-1815
Archibald Roane	1801-1803	Democratic-Republican	1760-1819
John Sevier	1803-1809	Democratic-Republican	1745-1815
Willie Blount	1809-1815	Democratic-Republican	1768-1835
Joseph McMinn	1815-1821	Democratic-Republican	1758-1824
William Carroll	1821-1827	Democratic-Republican	1788-1844
Sam Houston	1827-1829	Democratic-Republican	1793-1863
William Hall	1829	Democratic	1775-1856
William Carroll	1829-1835	Democratic	1788-1844
Newton Cannon	1835-1839	Whig	1781-1841
James K. Polk	1839-1841	Democratic	1795-1849
James C. Jones	1841-1845	Whig	1809-1859
Aaron V. Brown	1845-1847	Democratic	1795-1859
Neill S. Brown	1847-1849	Whig	1810-1886
William Trousdale	1849-1851	Democratic	1790-1872
William B. Campbell	1851-1853	Whig	1807-1867
Andrew Johnson	1853-1857	Democratic	1808-1875
Isham G. Harris	1857-1862	Democratic	1818-1897
Andrew Johnson	1862-1865	Democratic/Military	1808-1875
E. H. East¹	1865	Republican	1830-1904
William G. Brownlow	1865-1869	Whig	1805-1877
Dewitt Clinton Senter	1869-1871	Democratic	1830-1898
John C. Brown	1871-1875	Democratic	1827-1889
James D. Porter, Jr.	1875-1879	Democratic	1828-1912
Albert S. Marks	1879-1881	Democratic	1836-1891
Alvin Hawkins	1881-1883	Republican	1821-1905
William B. Bate	1883-1887	Democratic	1826-1905
Robert Love Taylor	1887-1891	Democratic	1850-1912
John P. Buchanan	1891-1893	Farm-Labor	1847-1930
Peter Turney	1893-1897	Democratic	1827-1903
Robert Love Taylor	1897-1899	Democratic	1850-1912
Benton McMillin	1899-1903	Democratic	1845-1933
James B. Frazier	1903-1905	Democratic	1856-1937
John I. Cox	1905-1907	Democratic	1855-1946
Malcolm R. Patterson	1907-1911	Democratic	1861-1935
Ben W. Hooper	1911-1915	Republican	1870-1957
Tom C. Rye	1915-1919	Democratic	1863-1953
A. H. Roberts	1919-1921	Democratic	1868-1946
Alfred A. Taylor	1921-1923	Republican	1848-1931
Austin Peay	1923-1927	Democratic	1876-1927
Henry Hollis Horton	1927-1933	Democratic	1866-1934
Harry Hill McAlister	1933-1937	Democratic	1875-1959
Gordon Browning	1937-1939	Democratic	1889-1976
Prentice Cooper	1939-1945	Democratic	1895-1969
Jim Nance McCord	1945-1949	Democratic	1879-1968
Gordon Browning	1949-1953	Democratic	1889-1976
Frank G. Clement	1953-1959	Democratic	1920-1969
Buford Ellington	1959-1963	Democratic	1907-1972
Frank G. Clement	1963-1967	Democratic	1920-1969
Buford Ellington	1967-1971	Democratic	1907-1972
Winfield Dunn	1971-1975	Republican	b.1927
Ray Blanton	1975-1979	Democratic	1930-1996
Lamar Alexander	1979-1987	Republican	b.1940
Ned McWherter	1987-1995	Democratic	b.1930
Donald K. Sundquist	1995-2003	Republican	b.1936
Phil Bredesen	2003-present	Democratic	b.1943

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¹East was Secretary of State for Tennessee from 1862-1865, appointed by Andrew Johnson, the military governor of the state under Union occupation during the American Civil War. After Johnson was inaugurated as Vice-President of the United States on March 4, 1865, East became the Acting Governor of Tennessee until William G. Brownlow, the "elected" governor of Tennessee, was inaugurated on April 5, 1865. The official Tennessee Blue Book does not include East in its list of former governors.

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