List of Lieutenant Governors of Tennessee
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The following is a list of persons who have served as Lieutenant Governor of Tennessee (full current formal title: Lieutenant Governor and Speaker of the Senate) since the current Tennessee State Constitution was adopted in 1870. The title of Lieutenant Governor was formally added in 1951; however, the Speaker of the Senate has been the designated successor to the Governor of Tennessee since Tennessee achieved statehood in 1796. Incumbent Lieutenant Governor Ron Ramsey is the first Republican to hold this office since the adoption of the current constitution, all others having been Democrats.
- Dorsey B. Thomas 1869 – 1871
- John C. Vaughn 1871 – 1873
- A. T. Lacey 1873 – 1875
- Thomas H. Paine 1875 – 1877
- Hugh M. McAdoo 1877 – 1879
- John R. Neal 1879 – 1881
- George H. Morgan 1881 – 1883
- Benjamin F. Alexander 1883 – 1885
- Cabell R. Berry 1885 – 1887
- Z. W. Ewing 1887 – 1889
- Benjamin J. Lea 1889 – 1891
- William C. Dismukes 1891 – 1895
- Ernest Pillow 1895 – 1897
- John Thompson 1897 – 1899
- Seid Waddell 1899 – 1901
- Newton H. White 1901 – 1903
- E. T. Seay 1903 – 1905
- John I. Cox 1905 ¹
- Ernest Rice 1905 – 1907
- E. G. Tollett 1907 – 1909
- William Kinney 1909 – 1911
- Nathaniel Baxter, Jr. 1911 – 1913
- Newton H. White 1913 – 1915
- Hu Anderson 1915
- Albert E. Hill 1915 – 1917
- W. R. Crabtree 1917 – 1919
- Andrew L. Todd 1919 – 1921
- W. W. Bond 1921 – 1923
- Eugene J. Bryan 1923 – 1925
- L. D. Hill 1925 – 1927
- Henry Hollis Horton 1927 ²
- Sam R. Bratton 1929 – 1931
- Scott Fitzhugh 1931
- A. B. Broadbent 1931 – 1933
- A. F. Officer 1933 - 1935
- William P. Moss 1935 – 1936
- Bryan Pope 1936 – 1939
- Blan R. Maxwell 1939 - 1943
- J. H. Ballew 1943 – 1945
- Larry Morgan 1945 – 1947
- George Oliver Benton 1947 – 1949
- Walter M. Haynes 1949 – 1953
- Jared Maddux 1953 – 1959
- William D. Baird 1959 – 1962
- James L. Bomar 1963 – 1965
- Jared Maddux 1965 – 1967
- Frank Gorrell 1967 – 1971
- John S. Wilder 1971 – 2007
- Ron Ramsey 2007 –
¹ John I. Cox became governor of Tennessee on March 21, 1905 when Governor James B. Frazier arranged his own appointment to a vacant United States Senate seat and then resigned as governor.
² Henry H. Horton became governor of Tennessee on October 3, 1927 upon the death of Governor Austin Peay IV. The legislature then met on a biennial basis, so the position of Speaker of the Senate remained vacant until January, 1929. During this period, the designated successor to the governor was Selden Maiden, Speaker of the Tennessee House of Representatives.
