THE GOVERNORS OF TENNESSEE

Territory of the United States South of the River Ohio, a.k.a. Southwest Territory :

  William Blount, (Territorial Governor), Democrat, 1790-1796

The Great State of Tennessee :

  John Sevier, Democratic-Republican, 1796-1801.   Also Served 1803-1809

  Archibald Roane, Democratic-Republican, 1801-1803

  Willie Blount, Democratic-Republican, 1809-1815

  Joseph McMinn, Democratic-Republican, 1815-1821

  William Carroll, Democratic-Republican, 1821-1827.   Also Served 1829-1835

  Sam Houston, Democratic-Republican, 1827-1829

  William Hall, Democrat, 1829-1829

  Newton Cannon, Whig, 1835-1839

  James Knox Polk, Democrat, 1839-1841.   Political Portrait, 1838.

  James C. Jones, Whig, 1841-1845

  Aaron Venable Brown, Democrat ,1845-1847

  Neill Smith Brown, Whig, 1847-1849

  William Trousdale, Democrat, 1849-1851

  William Bowen Campbell, Whig, 1851-1853

  Andrew Johnson, Democrat, 1853-1857.   Also served as Military Governor 1862-1865.

  Isham Green Harris, Democrat, 1857-1862

  William Gannaway Brownlow, Whig-Republican, 1865-1869

  DeWitt Clinton Senter, Whig-Republican, 1869-1871

  John Calvin Brown, Whig-Democrat, 1871-1875

  James David Porter, Democrat, 1875-1879

  Albert Smith Marks, Democrat, 1879-1881

  Alvin Hawkins, Republican, 1881-1883

  William Brimmage Bate, Democrat, 1883-1887

  Robert Love Taylor, Democrat, 1887-1891.   Also Served 1897-1899.

  John Price Buchanan, Democrat, 1891-1893

  Peter Turney, Democrat, 1893-1897

  Benton McMillin, Democrat, 1899-1903

  James B. Frazier, Democrat, 1903-1905

  John I. Cox, Democrat, 1905-1907

  Malcolm Rice Patterson, Democrat, 1907-1911

  Ben W. Hooper, Republican, 1911-1915

  Thomas C. Rye, Democrat, 1915-1919

  Albert H. Roberts, Democrat, 1919-1921

  Alfred A. Taylor, Republican, 1921-1923

  Austin Peay, Democrat, 1923-1927

  Henry H. Horton, Democrat, 1927-1933

  Hill McAlistar, Democrat, 1933-1937

  Gordon W. Browning, Democrat, 1937-1939.   Also Served 1949-1953.

  Prentice Cooper, Democrat, 1939-1945

  Jim Nance McCord, Democrat, 1945-1949

  Frank G. Clement, Democrat, 1953-1959.   Also Served 1963-1967.

  Buford Ellington, Democrat, 1959-1963.   Also Served 1967-1971.

  Winfield C. Dunn, Republican, 1971-1975

  Leonard Ray Blanton, Democrat, 1975-1979

  Lamar Alexander, Republican, 1979-1987

  Ned Ray McWherter, Democrat, 1987-1995

  Don Sundquist, Republican, 1995-2003

  Phillip Norman Bredesen, Democrat, 2003-present.

The U.S. flag, , indicates that James Knox Polk and Andrew Johnson both served as Presidents of the United States.