United States congressional delegations from Tennessee
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Tennessee
Census Topic | Value |
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Population | 6,910,840 |
Gender |
48.2% Male 51.8% Female |
Race |
72.2% White 15.8% Black 2% Asian 0.4% Native American 0.1% Pacific Islander |
Ethnicity | 6.9% Hispanic or Latino origin |
Median household income | $67,097 |
High school graduation rate | 89.6% |
College graduation rate | 30.4% |
Upcoming elections |
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, 2020 census and 2023 ACS data. Percentages are rounded to the nearest 0.1%.
This page displays the current and historical members of U.S. Congress from Tennessee.
Here is the current partisan breakdown of the congressional members from Tennessee.
Congressional Partisan Breakdown from Tennessee | |||
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Party | U.S. Senate | U.S. House | Total |
Democratic | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Republican | 2 | 8 | 10 |
Independent | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Vacancies | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Total | 2 | 9 | 11 |
Current members
U.S. Senate
- See also: Classes of United States Senators
- See also: Classes of United States Senators
The current members of the U.S. Senate from Tennessee are:
U.S. House
The current members of the U.S. House from Tennessee are:
Office | Name | Party | Date assumed office | Date term ends |
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U.S. House Tennessee District 1 | Diana Harshbarger | Republican | January 3, 2021 | January 3, 2027 |
U.S. House Tennessee District 2 | Tim Burchett | Republican | January 3, 2019 | January 3, 2027 |
U.S. House Tennessee District 3 | Charles J. Fleischmann | Republican | January 3, 2011 | January 3, 2027 |
U.S. House Tennessee District 4 | Scott DesJarlais | Republican | January 3, 2011 | January 3, 2027 |
U.S. House Tennessee District 5 | Andy Ogles | Republican | January 3, 2023 | January 3, 2027 |
U.S. House Tennessee District 6 | John Rose | Republican | January 3, 2019 | January 3, 2027 |
U.S. House Tennessee District 7 | Mark Green | Republican | January 3, 2019 | January 3, 2027 |
U.S. House Tennessee District 8 | David Kustoff | Republican | January 3, 2017 | January 3, 2027 |
U.S. House Tennessee District 9 | Steve Cohen | Democratic | January 3, 2007 | January 3, 2027 |
Historical members
U.S. Senate
Historical Representation to the U.S. Senate by Party from Tennessee | |
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Party | Total |
Democratic | 37 |
Republican | 11 |
Whig | 6 |
Democratic-Republican; Democratic; Whig | 1 |
Democratic-Republican | 12 |
Democratic-Republican; Jacksonian | 2 |
Class 1 Senators from Tennessee | ||
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Senator | Years Served | Party |
William Cocke | 1796-1797 | Democratic-Republican |
Andrew Jackson | 1797-1798 | Democratic-Republican; Jacksonian |
Daniel Smith | 1798-1799 | Democratic-Republican |
Joseph Anderson | 1799-1815 | Democratic-Republican |
George W. Campbell | 1815-1818 | Democratic-Republican |
John H. Eaton | 1818-1829 | Democratic-Republican; Democratic; Whig |
Felix Grundy | 1829-1838 | Democratic |
Ephraim H. Foster | 1838-1839 | Whig |
Felix Grundy | 1839-1840 | Democratic |
Alfred O. P. Nicholson | 1840-1842 | Democratic |
Ephraim H. Foster | 1843-1845 | Whig |
Hopkins L. Turney | 1845-1851 | Democratic |
James C. Jones | 1851-1857 | Whig |
Andrew Johnson | 1857-1862 | Democratic |
David T. Patterson | 1866-1869 | Democratic |
William G. Brownlow | 1869-1875 | Republican |
Andrew Johnson | 1875-1875 | Democratic |
David M. Key | 1875-1877 | Democratic |
James E. Bailey | 1877-1881 | Democratic |
Howell E. Jackson | 1881-1886 | Democratic |
Washington C. Whitthorne | 1886-1887 | Democratic |
William B. Bate | 1887-1905 | Democratic |
James B. Frazier | 1905-1911 | Democratic |
Luke Lea | 1911-1917 | Democratic |
Kenneth D. McKellar | 1917-1953 | Democratic |
Albert A. Gore, Sr. | 1953-1971 | Democratic |
William E. Brock III | 1971-1977 | Republican |
James R. Sasser | 1977-1995 | Democratic |
William H. Frist | 1995-2007 | Republican |
Bob Corker | 2007-2019 | Republican |
Marsha Blackburn | 2019-Present | Republican |
Class 2 Senators from Tennessee | ||
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Senator | Years Served | Party |
William Blount | 1796-1797 | Democratic-Republican |
Joseph Anderson | 1797-1799 | Democratic-Republican |
William Cocke | 1799-1805 | Democratic-Republican |
Daniel Smith | 1805-1809 | Democratic-Republican |
Jenkin Whiteside | 1809-1811 | Democratic-Republican |
George W. Campbell | 1811-1814 | Democratic-Republican |
Jesse Wharton | 1814-1815 | Democratic-Republican |
John Williams | 1815-1823 | Democratic-Republican |
Andrew Jackson | 1823-1825 | Democratic-Republican; Jacksonian |
Hugh Lawson White | 1825-1840 | Whig |
Alexander O. Anderson | 1840-1841 | Democratic |
Spencer Jarnagin | 1843-1847 | Whig |
John Bell | 1847-1859 | Whig |
Alfred O. P. Nicholson | 1859-1861 | Democratic |
Joseph S. Fowler | 1866-1871 | Republican |
Henry Cooper | 1871-1877 | Democratic |
Isham G. Harris | 1877-1897 | Democratic |
Thomas B. Turley | 1897-1901 | Democratic |
Edward W. Carmack | 1901-1907 | Democratic |
Robert L. Taylor | 1907-1912 | Democratic |
Newell Sanders | 1912-1913 | Republican |
William R. Webb | 1913-1913 | Democratic |
John K. Shields | 1913-1925 | Democratic |
Lawrence D. Tyson | 1925-1929 | Democratic |
William E. Brock | 1929-1931 | Democratic |
Cordell Hull | 1931-1933 | Democratic |
Nathan L. Bachman | 1933-1937 | Democratic |
George L. Berry | 1937-1938 | Democratic |
A. Thomas Stewart | 1939-1949 | Democratic |
C. Estes Kefauver | 1949-1963 | Democratic |
Herbert S. Walters | 1963-1964 | Democratic |
Ross Bass | 1964-1967 | Democratic |
Howard H. Baker, Jr. | 1967-1985 | Republican |
Albert A. Gore, Jr. | 1985-1993 | Democratic |
Harlan Mathews | 1993-1994 | Democratic |
Fred Thompson | 1994-2003 | Republican |
Lamar Alexander | 2003-2021 | Republican |
Bill Hagerty | 2021 - Present | Republican |
U.S. House
2000s
Historical Representation to the U.S. House by Party in the 2000s from Tennessee | |
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Party | Total |
Democratic | 2 |
Republican | 13 |
Total Representatives | 15 |
Representatives to the U.S. House from Tennessee | ||
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Representative | Years Served | Party |
Lincoln Davis | 2003–2011 | Democratic |
Marsha Blackburn | 2003–2019 | Republican |
David Davis | 2007–2009 | Republican |
Steve Cohen | 2007–present | Democratic |
Phil Roe | 2009–2021 | Republican |
Chuck Fleischmann | 2011–present | Republican |
Scott DesJarlais | 2011–present | Republican |
Diane Black | 2011–2019 | Republican |
Stephen Fincher | 2011–2017 | Republican |
David Kustoff | 2017–present | Republican |
Tim Burchett | 2019–present | Republican |
John Rose | 2019–present | Republican |
Mark Green | 2019–present | Republican |
Diana Harshbarger | 2021–present | Republican |
Andy Ogles | 2023–present | Republican |
1900s
Historical Representation to the U.S. House by Party in the 1900s from Tennessee | |
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Party | Total |
Democratic | 54 |
Republican | 27 |
Total Representatives | 81 |
Representatives to the U.S. House from Tennessee | ||
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Representative | Years Served | Party |
Lemuel P. Padgett | 1901–1922 | Democratic |
Malcolm R. Patterson | 1901–1906 | Democratic |
Morgan Cassius Fitzpatrick | 1903–1905 | Democratic |
Nathan W. Hale | 1905–1909 | Republican |
Mounce G. Butler | 1905–1907 | Democratic |
William C. Houston | 1905–1919 | Democratic |
Finis J. Garrett | 1905–1929 | Democratic |
Cordell Hull | 1907–1921, 1923–1931 | Democratic |
George W. Gordon | 1907–1911 | Democratic |
Richard W. Austin | 1909–1919 | Republican |
Joseph W. Byrns | 1909–1936 | Democratic |
Zachary D. Massey | 1910–1911 | Republican |
Sam R. Sells | 1911–1921 | Republican |
Kenneth D. McKellar | 1911–1917 | Democratic |
Hubert Fisher | 1917–1931 | Democratic |
J. Will Taylor | 1919–1939 | Republican |
Ewin L. Davis | 1919–1933 | Democratic |
B. Carroll Reece | 1921–1931, 1933–1947, 1951–1961 | Republican |
Joseph Edgar Brown | 1921–1923 | Republican |
Wynne F. Clouse | 1921–1923 | Republican |
Lon A. Scott | 1921–1923 | Republican |
Clarence W. Turner | 1922–1923, 1933–1939 | Democratic |
Sam D. McReynolds | 1923–1939 | Democratic |
William C. Salmon | 1923–1925 | Democratic |
Gordon Browning | 1923–1935 | Democratic |
Edward E. Eslick | 1925–1932 | Democratic |
Jere Cooper | 1929–1957 | Democratic |
Oscar B. Lovette | 1931–1933 | Republican |
John R. Mitchell | 1931–1939 | Democratic |
Edward H. Crump | 1931–1935 | Democratic |
Willa McC. Blake Eslick | 1932–1933 | Democratic |
Herron C. Pearson | 1935–1943 | Democratic |
Walter "Clift" Chandler | 1935–1940 | Democratic |
Richard M. Atkinson | 1937–1939 | Democratic |
Al Gore, Sr. | 1939–1944, 1945–1953 | Democratic |
Jo Byrns, Jr. | 1939–1941 | Democratic |
John Jennings, Jr. | 1939–1951 | Republican |
Estes Kefauver | 1939–1949 | Democratic |
W. Wirt Courtney | 1939–1949 | Democratic |
Clifford Davis | 1940–1965 | Democratic |
J. Percy Priest | 1941–1956 | Democratic |
Jim N. McCord | 1943–1945 | Democratic |
Tom J. Murray | 1943–1966 | Democratic |
Harold Earthman | 1945–1947 | Democratic |
Dayton E. Phillips | 1947–1951 | Republican |
Joe L. Evins | 1947–1977 | Democratic |
James B. Frazier, Jr. | 1949–1963 | Democratic |
James P. Sutton | 1949–1955 | Democratic |
Howard Baker, Sr. | 1951–1964 | Republican |
Ross Bass | 1955–1964 | Democratic |
J. Carlton Loser | 1957–1963 | Democratic |
Fats Everett | 1958–1969 | Democratic |
Louise G. Reece | 1961–1963 | Republican |
Jimmy Quillen | 1963–1997 | Republican |
Bill Brock | 1963–1971 | Republican |
Dick Fulton | 1963–1975 | Democratic |
Irene Bailey Baker | 1964–1965 | Republican |
John Duncan, Sr. | 1965–1988 | Republican |
William R. Anderson | 1965–1973 | Democratic |
George W. Grider | 1965–1967 | Democratic |
Ray Blanton | 1967–1973 | Democratic |
Dan Kuykendall | 1967–1975 | Republican |
Ed Jones | 1969–1989 | Democratic |
LaMar Baker | 1971–1975 | Republican |
Robin L. Beard, Jr. | 1973–1983 | Republican |
Marilyn Lloyd | 1975–1995 | Democratic |
Harold Ford, Sr. | 1975–1997 | Democratic |
Clifford Allen | 1975–1978 | Democratic |
Al Gore | 1977–1985 | Democratic |
Bill Boner | 1979–1987 | Democratic |
Jim Cooper | 1983–1995, 2003–2023 | Democratic |
Don Sundquist | 1983–1995 | Republican |
Bart Gordon | 1985–2011 | Democratic |
John Duncan | 1988–2019 | Republican |
Bob Clement | 1988–2003 | Democratic |
John S. Tanner | 1989–2011 | Democratic |
Zach Wamp | 1995–2011 | Republican |
Van Hilleary | 1995–2003 | Republican |
Ed Bryant | 1995–2003 | Republican |
William L. Jenkins | 1997–2007 | Republican |
Harold E. Ford, Jr. | 1997–2007 | Democratic |
1800s
Historical Representation to the U.S. House by Party in the 1800s from Tennessee | |
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Party | Total |
Democratic | 72 |
Republican | 24 |
Democratic-Republican | 25 |
Whig | 20 |
Know Nothing | 2 |
Opposition | 4 |
Unionist | 4 |
Multiple party affiliations | 26 |
Total Representatives | 177 |
Representatives to the U.S. House from Tennessee | ||
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Representative | Years Served | Party |
Andrew Jackson | 1796–1797 | Democratic-Republican |
William C.C. Claiborne | 1797–1801 | Democratic-Republican |
William Dickson | 1801–1807 | Democratic-Republican |
George W. Campbell | 1803–1809 | Democratic-Republican |
John Rhea | 1803–1815, 1817–1823 | Democratic-Republican |
Jesse Wharton | 1807–1809 | Democratic-Republican |
Pleasant Moorman Miller | 1809–1811 | Democratic-Republican |
Robert Weakley | 1809–1811 | Democratic-Republican |
Felix Grundy | 1811–1814 | Democratic-Republican |
John Sevier | 1811–1815 | Democratic-Republican |
Thomas K. Harris | 1813–1815 | Democratic-Republican |
John Henry Bowen | 1813–1815 | Democratic-Republican |
Parry Wayne Humphreys | 1813–1815 | Democratic-Republican |
Newton Cannon | 1814–1817, 1819–1823 | Democratic-Republican |
Samuel Powell | 1815–1817 | Democratic-Republican |
Isaac Thomas | 1815–1817 | Democratic-Republican |
Bennett H. Henderson | 1815–1817 | Democratic-Republican |
James B. Reynolds | 1815–1817, 1823–1825 | Democratic-Republican |
William Grainger Blount | 1815–1819 | Democratic-Republican |
Francis Jones | 1817–1823 | Democratic-Republican |
Samuel E. Hogg | 1817–1819 | Democratic-Republican |
Thomas Claiborne | 1817–1819 | Democratic-Republican |
George Washington Lent Marr | 1817–1819 | Democratic-Republican |
John Alexander Cocke | 1819–1827 | Democratic-Republican; Democratic |
Robert Allen | 1819–1827 | Democratic-Republican; Democratic |
Henry Hunter Bryan | 1819–1821 | Democratic-Republican |
Adam Rankin Alexander | 1823–1827 | Democratic-Republican; Democratic |
John Blair | 1823–1835 | Democratic-Republican; Democratic |
Sam Houston | 1823–1827 | Democratic |
Jacob C. Isacks | 1823–1833 | Democratic-Republican; Democratic |
James T. Sandford | 1823–1825 | Democratic-Republican |
James Israel Standifer | 1823–1825; 1829–1837 | Democratic-Republican; Democratic; Anti-Jacksonian; Whig |
James Coffield Mitchell | 1825–1829 | Democratic |
James K. Polk | 1825–1839 | Democratic |
John Hartwell Marable | 1825–1829 | Democratic |
Pryor Lea | 1827–1831 | Democratic |
Robert Desha | 1827–1831 | Democratic |
John Bell | 1827–1841 | Democratic; Anti-Jacksonian; Whig |
Davy Crockett | 1827–1831, 1833–1835 | Democratic |
Cave Johnson | 1829–1837, 1839–1845 | Democratic |
Thomas Dickens Arnold | 1831–1833; 1841–1843 | Anti-Jacksonian; Whig |
William Hall | 1831–1833 | Democratic |
William Fitzgerald | 1831–1833 | Democratic |
Samuel Bunch | 1833–1837 | Democratic; Anti-Jacksonian |
Luke Lea | 1833–1837 | Democratic; Anti-Jacksonian |
John B. Forester | 1833–1837 | Democratic; Anti-Jacksonian |
Balie Peyton | 1833–1837 | Democratic; Anti-Jacksonian |
David W. Dickinson | 1833–1835; 1843–1845 | Democratic; Whig |
William Marshall Inge | 1833–1835 | Democratic |
William Claiborne Dunlap | 1833–1837 | Democratic |
William Blount Carter | 1835–1841 | Anti-Jacksonian; Whig |
Abram Poindexter Maury | 1835–1839 | Anti-Jacksonian; Whig |
Ebenezer J. Shields | 1835–1839 | Anti-Jacksonian; Whig |
Adam Huntsman | 1835–1837 | Democratic |
Abraham McClellan | 1837–1843 | Democratic |
Joseph Lanier Williams | 1837–1843 | Whig |
Hopkins Lacy Turney | 1837–1843 | Democratic |
William B. Campbell | 1837–1843; 1866–1867 | Whig; Unionist |
Richard Cheatham | 1837–1839 | Whig |
John Wesley Crockett | 1837–1841 | Whig |
Christopher Harris Williams | 1837–1843,1849–1853 | Whig |
William Stone | 1837–1839 | Whig |
Julius W. Blackwell | 1839–1841,1843–1845 | Democratic |
Meredith Poindexter Gentry | 1839–1843, 1845–1853 | Whig |
Harvey Magee Watterson | 1839–1843 | Democratic |
Aaron V. Brown | 1839–1845 | Democratic |
Thomas Jefferson Campbell | 1841–1843 | Whig |
Robert Looney Caruthers | 1841–1843 | Whig |
Milton Brown | 1841–1847 | Whig |
Andrew Johnson | 1843–1853 | Democratic |
William Tandy Senter | 1843–1845 | Whig |
Alvan Cullom | 1843–1847 | Democratic |
George Washington Jones | 1843–1859 | Democratic |
Joseph Hopkins Peyton | 1843–1845 | Whig |
John Baptista Ashe | 1843–1845 | Whig |
William Michael Cocke | 1845–1849 | Whig |
John Hervey Crozier | 1845–1849 | Whig |
Barclay Martin | 1845–1847 | Democratic |
Lucien Bonaparte Chase | 1845–1849 | Democratic |
Frederick Perry Stanton | 1845–1855 | Democratic |
Edwin Hickman Ewing | 1845–1847 | Whig |
Hugh Lawson White Hill | 1847–1849 | Democratic |
James Houston Thomas | 1847–1851, 1859–1861 | Democratic |
Washington Barrow | 1847–1849 | Whig |
William T. Haskell | 1847–1849 | Whig |
Albert Galiton Watkins | 1849–1853; 1855–1859 | Whig; Democratic |
Josiah M. Anderson | 1849–1851 | Whig |
John Houston Savage | 1849–1853, 1855–1859 | Democratic |
Andrew Ewing | 1849–1851 | Democratic |
Isham G. Harris | 1849–1853 | Democratic |
William Montgomery Churchwell | 1851–1855 | Democratic |
William Hawkins Polk | 1851–1853 | Democratic |
William Cullom | 1851–1855 | Whig |
Brookins Campbell | 1853 | Democratic |
Samuel Axley Smith | 1853–1859 | Democratic |
Charles Ready | 1853–1859 | Whig; Know Nothing |
Robert Malone Bugg | 1853–1855 | Whig |
Felix Zollicoffer | 1853–1859 | Whig; Know Nothing |
Emerson Etheridge | 1853–1857; 1859–1863 | Whig; Know Nothing; Opposition |
Nathaniel Green Taylor | 1854–1855; 1866–1867 | Whig; Unionist |
William Henry Sneed | 1855–1857 | Know Nothing |
John Vines Wright | 1855–1861 | Democratic |
Thomas Rivers | 1855–1857 | Know Nothing |
Horace Maynard | 1857–1863; 1865–1875 | Know Nothing; Opposition; Unionist; Republican |
John DeWitt Clinton Atkins | 1857–1859, 1873–1883 | Democratic |
William Tecumsah Avery | 1857–1861 | Democratic |
Thomas Amos Rogers Nelson | 1859–1861 | Opposition |
Reese Bowen Brabson | 1859–1861 | Opposition |
William Brickly Stokes | 1859–1861; 1866–1871 | Opposition; Republican |
Robert Hopkins Hatton | 1859–1861 | Opposition |
James Minor Quarles | 1859–1861 | Opposition |
George Washington Bridges | 1863 | Unionist |
Andrew Jackson Clements | 1861–1863 | Unionist |
Edmund Cooper | 1866–1867 | Unionist |
Samuel Mayes Arnell | 1866–1871 | Unionist; Republican |
Isaac Roberts Hawkins | 1866–1871 | Unionist; Republican |
John W. Leftwich | 1866–1867 | Unionist |
Roderick R. Butler | 1867–1875; 1887–1889 | Republican |
James Mullins | 1867–1869 | Republican |
John Trimble | 1867–1869 | Republican |
David Alexander Nunn | 1867–1869, 1873–1875 | Republican |
Lewis Tillman | 1869–1871 | Republican |
William Farrand Prosser | 1869–1871 | Republican |
William Jay Smith | 1869–1871 | Republican |
Abraham Ellison Garrett | 1871–1873 | Democratic |
John Morgan Bright | 1871–1881 | Democratic |
Edward Isaac Golladay | 1871–1873 | Democratic |
Washington C. Whitthorne | 1871–1883, 1887–1891 | Democratic |
Robert Porter Caldwell | 1871–1873 | Democratic |
William Wirt Vaughan | 1871–1873 | Democratic |
Jacob Montgomery Thornburgh | 1873–1879 | Republican |
William Crutchfield | 1873–1875 | Republican |
Horace Harrison | 1873–1875 | Republican |
Barbour Lewis | 1873–1875 | Republican |
William McFarland | 1875–1877 | Democratic |
George Gibbs Dibrell | 1875–1885 | Democratic |
Samuel McClary Fite | 1875 | Democratic |
John Ford House | 1875–1883 | Democratic |
William Parker Caldwell | 1875–1879 | Democratic |
H. Casey Young | 1875–1881, 1883–1885 | Democratic |
Haywood Yancey Riddle | 1875–1879 | Democratic |
James Henry Randolph | 1877–1879 | Republican |
Robert L. Taylor | 1879–1881 | Democratic |
Leonidas C. Houk | 1879–1891 | Republican |
Benton McMillin | 1879–1899 | Democratic |
Charles Bryson Simonton | 1879–1883 | Democratic |
Augustus Herman Pettibone | 1881–1887 | Republican |
Richard Warner | 1881–1885 | Democratic |
William Robert Moore | 1881–1883 | Republican |
Andrew Jackson Caldwell | 1883–1887 | Democratic |
John Goff Ballentine | 1883–1887 | Democratic |
John May Taylor | 1883–1887 | Democratic |
Rice Alexander Pierce | 1883–1885, 1889–1893, 1897–1905 | Democratic |
John R. Neal | 1885–1889 | Democratic |
James D. Richardson | 1885–1905 | Democratic |
Presley T. Glass | 1885–1889 | Democratic |
Zachary Taylor | 1885–1887 | Republican |
Joseph E. Washington | 1887–1897 | Democratic |
Benjamin A. Enloe | 1887–1895 | Democratic |
James Phelan | 1887–1891 | Democratic |
Alfred A. Taylor | 1889–1895 | Republican |
H. Clay Evans | 1889–1891 | Republican |
Henry C. Snodgrass | 1891–1895 | Democratic |
Nicholas N. Cox | 1891–1901 | Democratic |
Josiah Patterson | 1891–1897 | Democratic |
John C. Houk | 1891–1895 | Republican |
James C. McDearmon | 1893–1897 | Democratic |
William Coleman Anderson | 1895–1897 | Republican |
Henry R. Gibson | 1895–1905 | Republican |
Foster V. Brown | 1895–1897 | Republican |
John E. McCall | 1895–1897 | Republican |
Walter P. Brownlow | 1897–1910 | Republican |
John A. Moon | 1897–1921 | Democratic |
John W. Gaines | 1897–1909 | Democratic |
Thetus W. Sims | 1897–1921 | Democratic |
Edward W. Carmack | 1897–1901 | Democratic |
Charles Edward Snodgrass | 1899–1903 | Democratic |
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