List of United States Representatives from Tennessee

Current members, listed by district

Updated January 2011.

• 1st – Phil Roe (R)
• 2nd – Jimmy Duncan (R)
• 3rd – Chuck Fleischmann (R)
• 4th – Scott DesJarlais (R)
• 5th – Jim Cooper (D)
• 6th – Diane Black (R)
• 7th – Marsha Blackburn (R)
• 8th – Stephen Fincher (R)
• 9th – Steve Cohen (D)

Previous members

Representative	Party	Years	Electoral history
Andrew Jackson	Democratic-Republican	1796–1797
William C.C. Claiborne	Democratic-Republican	1797–1801
William Dickson	Democratic-Republican	1801–1807
George W. Campbell	Democratic-Republican	1803–1809
John Rhea	Democratic-Republican	1803–1815 1817–1823
Jesse Wharton	Democratic-Republican	1807–1809
Pleasant Moorman Miller	Democratic-Republican	1809–1811
Robert Weakley	Democratic-Republican	1809–1811
Felix Grundy	Democratic-Republican	1811–1814
John Sevier	Democratic-Republican	1811–1815
Thomas K. Harris	Democratic-Republican	1813–1815
John Henry Bowen	Democratic-Republican	1813–1815
Parry Wayne Humphreys	Democratic-Republican	1813–1815
Newton Cannon	Democratic-Republican	1814–1817 1819–1823
Samuel Powell	Democratic-Republican	1815–1817
Isaac Thomas	Democratic-Republican	1815–1817
Bennett H. Henderson	Democratic-Republican	1815–1817
James B. Reynolds	Democratic-Republican	1815–1817 1823–1825
William Grainger Blount	Democratic-Republican	1815–1819
Francis Jones	Democratic-Republican	1817–1823
Samuel E. Hogg	Democratic-Republican	1817–1819
Thomas Claiborne	Democratic-Republican	1817–1819
George Washington Lent Marr	Democratic-Republican	1817–1819
John Alexander Cocke	Democratic-Republican	1819–1825
Robert Allen	Democratic-Republican	1819–1825
Henry Hunter Bryan	Democratic-Republican	1819–1821
Adam Rankin Alexander	Democratic-Republican	1823–1825
John Blair	Democratic-Republican	1823–1825
Sam Houston	Democratic	1823–1827
Jacob C. Isacks	Democratic-Republican	1823–1825
James T. Sandford	Democratic-Republican	1823–1825
James Israel Standifer	Democratic-Republican	1823–1825
John Blair	Democratic	1825–1835
John Alexander Cocke	Democratic	1825–1827
James Coffield Mitchell	Democratic	1825–1829
Jacob C. Isacks	Democratic	1825–1833
Robert Allen	Democratic	1825–1827
James K. Polk	Democratic	1825–1839
John Hartwell Marable	Democratic	1825–1829
Adam Rankin Alexander	Democratic	1825–1827
Pryor Lea	Democratic	1827–1831
Robert Desha	Democratic	1827–1831
John Bell	Democratic	1827–1835
Davy Crockett	Democratic	1827–1829
Davy Crockett	Anti-Jacksonian	1829–1831 1833–1835
James Israel Standifer	Democratic	1829–1835
Cave Johnson	Democratic	1829–1837 1839–1845
Thomas Dickens Arnold	Anti-Jacksonian	1831–1833
William Hall	Democratic	1831–1833
William Fitzgerald	Democratic	1831–1833
Samuel Bunch	Democratic	1833–1835
Luke Lea	Democratic	1833–1835
John B. Forester	Democratic	1833–1835
Balie Peyton	Democratic	1833–1835
David W. Dickinson	Democratic	1833–1835
William Marshall Inge	Democratic	1833–1835
William Claiborne Dunlap	Democratic	1833–1837
William Blount Carter	Anti-Jacksonian	1835–1837
Samuel Bunch	Anti-Jacksonian	1835–1837
Luke Lea	Anti-Jacksonian	1835–1837
James Israel Standifer	Anti-Jacksonian	1835–1837
John B. Forester	Anti-Jacksonian	1835–1837
Balie Peyton	Anti-Jacksonian	1835–1837
John Bell	Anti-Jacksonian	1835–1837
Abram Poindexter Maury	Anti-Jacksonian	1835–1837
Ebenezer J. Shields	Anti-Jacksonian	1835–1837
Adam Huntsman	Democratic	1835–1837
William Blount Carter	Whig	1837–1841
Abraham McClellan	Democratic	1837–1843
Joseph Lanier Williams	Whig	1837–1843
James Israel Standifer	Whig	1837
Hopkins Lacy Turney	Democratic	1837–1843
William B. Campbell	Whig	1837–1843
John Bell	Whig	1837–1841
Abram Poindexter Maury	Whig	1837–1839
Ebenezer J. Shields	Whig	1837–1839
Richard Cheatham	Whig	1837–1839
John Wesley Crockett	Whig	1837–1841
Christopher Harris Williams	Whig	1837–1843 1849–1853
William Stone	Whig	1837–1839
Julius W. Blackwell	Democratic	1839–1841 1843–1845
Meredith Poindexter Gentry	Whig	1839–1843 1845–1853
Harvey Magee Watterson	Democratic	1839–1843
Aaron V. Brown	Democratic	1839–1845
Thomas Dickens Arnold	Whig	1841–1843
Thomas Jefferson Campbell	Whig	1841–1843
Robert Looney Caruthers	Whig	1841–1843
Milton Brown	Whig	1841–1847
Andrew Johnson	Democratic	1843–1853
William Tandy Senter	Whig	1843–1845
Alvan Cullom	Democratic	1843–1847
George Washington Jones	Democratic	1843–1859
David W. Dickinson	Whig	1843–1845
Joseph Hopkins Peyton	Whig	1843–1845
John Baptista Ashe	Whig	1843–1845
William Michael Cocke	Whig	1845–1849
John Hervey Crozier	Whig	1845–1849
Barclay Martin	Democratic	1845–1847
Lucien Bonaparte Chase	Democratic	1845–1849
Frederick Perry Stanton	Democratic	1845–1855
Edwin Hickman Ewing	Whig	1845–1847
Hugh Lawson White Hill	Democratic	1847–1849
James Houston Thomas	Democratic	1847–1851 1859–1861
Washington Barrow	Whig	1847–1849
William T. Haskell	Whig	1847–1849
Albert Galiton Watkins	Whig	1849–1853
Josiah M. Anderson	Whig	1849–1851
John Houston Savage	Democratic	1849–1853 1855–1859
Andrew Ewing	Democratic	1849–1851
Isham G. Harris	Democratic	1849–1853
William Montgomery Churchwell	Democratic	1851–1855
William Hawkins Polk	(Ind. Democrat)	1851–1853
William Cullom	Whig	1851–1855
Brookins Campbell	Democratic	1853
Samuel Axley Smith	Democratic	1853–1859
Charles Ready	Whig	1853–1855
Robert Malone Bugg	Whig	1853–1855
Felix Zollicoffer	Whig	1853–1855
Emerson Etheridge	Whig	1853–1855
Nathaniel Green Taylor	Whig	1854–1855
Albert Galiton Watkins	Democratic	1855–1859
William Henry Sneed	Know Nothing	1855–1857
Charles Ready	Know Nothing	1855–1859
John Vines Wright	Democratic	1855–1861
Felix Zollicoffer	Know Nothing	1855–1859
Emerson Etheridge	Know Nothing	1855–1857
Thomas Rivers	Know Nothing	1855–1857
Horace Maynard	Know Nothing	1857–1859
John DeWitt Clinton Atkins	Democratic	1857–1859 1873–1883
William Tecumsah Avery	Democratic	1857–1861
Thomas Amos Rogers Nelson	Opposition	1859–1861
Horace Maynard	Opposition	1859–1861
Reese Bowen Brabson	Opposition	1859–1861
William Brickly Stokes	Opposition	1859–1861
Robert Hopkins Hatton	Opposition	1859–1861
James Minor Quarles	Opposition	1859–1861
Emerson Etheridge	Opposition	1859–1861
Horace Maynard	Unionist	1861–1863
George Washington Bridges	Unionist	1863
Andrew Jackson Clements	Unionist	1861–1863
Nathaniel Green Taylor	Unionist	1866–1867
Horace Maynard	(Unconditional Unionist)	1866–1867
William Brickly Stokes	Republican	1866–1871
Edmund Cooper	Unionist	1866–1867
William B. Campbell	Unionist	1866–1867
Samuel Mayes Arnell	(Unconditional Unionist)	1866–1867
Isaac Roberts Hawkins	Unionist	1866–1867
John W. Leftwich	Unionist	1866–1867
Samuel Mayes Arnell	Republican	1867–1871
Roderick R. Butler	Republican	1867–1875
Isaac Roberts Hawkins	Republican	1867–1871
James Mullins	Republican	1867–1869
John Trimble	Republican	1867–1869
David Alexander Nunn	Republican	1867–1869 1873–1875
Lewis Tillman	Republican	1869–1871
William Farrand Prosser	Republican	1869–1871
William Jay Smith	Republican	1869–1871
Abraham Ellison Garrett	Democratic	1871–1873
John Morgan Bright	Democratic	1871–1881
Edward Isaac Golladay	Democratic	1871–1873
Washington C. Whitthorne	Democratic	1871–1883 1887–1891
Robert Porter Caldwell	Democratic	1871–1873
William Wirt Vaughan	Democratic	1871–1873
Jacob Montgomery Thornburgh	Republican	1873–1879
William Crutchfield	Republican	1873–1875
Horace Harrison	Republican	1873–1875
Barbour Lewis	Republican	1873–1875
Horace Maynard	Republican	1867–1875
William McFarland	Democratic	1875–1877
George Gibbs Dibrell	Democratic	1875–1885
Samuel McClary Fite	Democratic	1875
John Ford House	Democratic	1875–1883
William Parker Caldwell	Democratic	1875–1879
H. Casey Young	Democratic	1875–1881 1883–1885
Haywood Yancey Riddle	Democratic	1875–1879
James Henry Randolph	Republican	1877–1879
Robert L. Taylor	Democratic	1879–1881
Leonidas C. Houk	Republican	1879–1891
Benton McMillin	Democratic	1879–1899
Charles Bryson Simonton	Democratic	1879–1883
Augustus Herman Pettibone	Republican	1881–1887
Richard Warner	Democratic	1881–1885
William Robert Moore	Republican	1881–1883
Andrew Jackson Caldwell	Democratic	1883–1887
John Goff Ballentine	Democratic	1883–1887
John May Taylor	Democratic	1883–1887
Rice Alexander Pierce	Democratic	1883–1885 1889–1893 1897–1905
John R. Neal	Democratic	1885–1889
James D. Richardson	Democratic	1885–1905
Presley T. Glass	Democratic	1885–1889
Zachary Taylor	Republican	1885–1887
Roderick R. Butler	Republican	1887–1889
Joseph E. Washington	Democratic	1887–1897
Benjamin A. Enloe	Democratic	1887–1895
James Phelan	Democratic	1887–1891
Alfred A. Taylor	Republican	1889–1895
H. Clay Evans	Republican	1889–1891
Henry C. Snodgrass	Democratic	1891–1895
Nicholas N. Cox	Democratic	1891–1901
Josiah Patterson	Democratic	1891–1897
John C. Houk	Republican	1891–1895
James C. McDearmon	Democratic	1893–1897
William Coleman Anderson	Republican	1895–1897
Henry R. Gibson	Republican	1895–1905
Foster V. Brown	Republican	1895–1897
John E. McCall	Republican	1895–1897
Walter P. Brownlow	Republican	1897–1910
John A. Moon	Democratic	1897–1921
John W. Gaines	Democratic	1897–1909
Thetus W. Sims	Democratic	1897–1921
Edward W. Carmack	Democratic	1897–1901
Charles Edward Snodgrass	Democratic	1899–1903
Lemuel P. Padgett	Democratic	1901–1922
Malcolm R. Patterson	Democratic	1901–1906
Morgan Cassius Fitzpatrick	Democratic	1903–1905
Nathan W. Hale	Republican	1905–1909
Mounce G. Butler	Democratic	1905–1907
William C. Houston	Democratic	1905–1919
Finis J. Garrett	Democratic	1905–1929
Cordell Hull	Democratic	1907–1921 1923–1931
George W. Gordon	Democratic	1907–1911
Richard W. Austin	Republican	1909–1919
Joseph W. Byrns	Democratic	1909–1936
Zachary D. Massey	Republican	1910–1911
Sam R. Sells	Republican	1911–1921
Kenneth D. McKellar	Democratic	1911–1917
Hubert Fisher	Democratic	1917–1931
J. Will Taylor	Republican	1919–1939
Ewin L. Davis	Democratic	1919–1933
B. Carroll Reece	Republican	1921–1931 1933–1947 1951–1961
Joseph Edgar Brown	Republican	1921–1923
Wynne F. Clouse	Republican	1921–1923
Lon A. Scott	Republican	1921–1923
Clarence W. Turner	Democratic	1922–1923 1933–1939
Sam D. McReynolds	Democratic	1923–1939
William C. Salmon	Democratic	1923–1925
Gordon Browning	Democratic	1923–1935
Edward E. Eslick	Democratic	1925–1932
Jere Cooper	Democratic	1929–1957
Oscar B. Lovette	Republican	1931–1933
John R. Mitchell	Democratic	1931–1939
Edward H. Crump	Democratic	1931–1935
Willa McC. Blake Eslick	Democratic	1932–1933
Herron C. Pearson	Democratic	1935–1943
Walter "Clift" Chandler	Democratic	1935–1940
Richard M. Atkinson	Democratic	1937–1939
Al Gore, Sr.	Democratic	1939–1944 1945–1953
Jo Byrns, Jr.	Democratic	1939–1941
John Jennings, Jr.	Republican	1939–1951
Estes Kefauver	Democratic	1939–1949
W. Wirt Courtney	Democratic	1939–1949
Clifford Davis	Democratic	1940–1965
J. Percy Priest	Democratic	1941–1956
Jim N. McCord	Democratic	1943–1945
Tom J. Murray	Democratic	1943–1966
Harold Earthman	Democratic	1945–1947
Dayton E. Phillips	Republican	1947–1951
Joe L. Evins	Democratic	1947–1977
James B. Frazier, Jr.	Democratic	1949–1963
James P. Sutton	Democratic	1949–1955
Howard Baker, Sr.	Republican	1951–1964
Ross Bass	Democratic	1955–1964
J. Carlton Loser	Democratic	1957–1963
Fats Everett	Democratic	1958–1969
Louise G. Reece	Republican	1961–1963
Jimmy Quillen	Republican	1963–1997
Bill Brock	Republican	1963–1971
Dick Fulton	Democratic	1963–1975
Irene Bailey Baker	Republican	1964–1965
John Duncan, Sr.	Republican	1965–1988
William R. Anderson	Democratic	1965–1973
George W. Grider	Democratic	1965–1967
Ray Blanton	Democratic	1967–1973
Dan Kuykendall	Republican	1967–1975
Ed Jones	Democratic	1969–1989
LaMar Baker	Republican	1971–1975
Robin L. Beard, Jr.	Republican	1973–1983
Marilyn Lloyd	Democratic	1975–1995
Harold Ford, Sr.	Democratic	1975–1997
Clifford Allen	Democratic	1975–1978
Al Gore	Democratic	1977–1985
Bill Boner	Democratic	1979–1987
Jim Cooper	Democratic	1983–1995 2003–present
Don Sundquist	Republican	1983–1995
Bart Gordon	Democratic	1985–2011
John Duncan	Republican	1988–present
Bob Clement	Democratic	1988–2003
John S. Tanner	Democratic	1989–2011
Zach Wamp	Republican	1995–2011
Van Hilleary	Republican	1995–2003
Ed Bryant	Republican	1995–2003
William L. Jenkins	Republican	1997–2007
Harold E. Ford, Jr.	Democratic	1997–2007
Lincoln Davis	Democratic	2003–2011
Marsha Blackburn	Republican	2003–present
David Davis	Republican	2007–2009
Steve Cohen	Democratic	2007–present
Phil Roe	Republican	2009–present
Chuck Fleischmann	Republican	2011–present
Scott DesJarlais	Republican	2011–present
Diane Black	Republican	2011–present
Stephen Fincher	Republican	2011–present

See also

• Tennessee's congressional districts