The governor of Tennessee is the head of government of the U.S. state of Tennessee and the commander-in-chief of the state's military forces. The governor is the only official in the Tennessee state government who is directly elected by the voters of the entire state.
Philip Norman Bredesen Jr. is an American politician and businessman who served as the 48th governor of Tennessee from 2003 to 2011. A member of the Democratic Party,he was elected in 2002 with 50.6% of the vote and re-elected in 2006 with 68.6%. He is the most recent Democrat elected to a statewide office in the state. He served as the 66th mayor of Nashville from 1991 to 1999. Bredesen is the founder of the HealthAmerica Corporation,which he sold in 1986.
Joseph Wellington Byrns Sr. was a U.S. politician. He served as a 14-term Democratic congressman from Tennessee,and as the 41st speaker of the United States House of Representatives.
Robert Nelson Clement is an American politician and academic administrator. He is a member of the Democratic Party and served in the United States House of Representatives,representing Tennessee,from 1988 until 2003,when he retired to run unsuccessfully for the United States Senate.
William Hill Boner is an American educator and former Democratic politician from Tennessee. He was the third mayor of the Metropolitan government of Nashville and Davidson County,serving from 1987 to 1991. He served in the U.S. House of Representatives,as the Representative from the 5th District of Tennessee,from 1979 to 1988.
Richard Harmon Fulton was an American Democratic politician who served as a member of the Tennessee State Senate and of the United States House of Representatives,and the second mayor of the Metropolitan Government of Nashville and Davidson County.
William Vanderpool "Van" Hilleary is an American politician who served as the U.S. representative for Tennessee's 4th congressional district from 1995 to 2003. He is a member of the Republican Party.
Clifton Beverly Briley was an American attorney and politician,the first mayor of the newly consolidated metropolitan government of Nashville and Davidson County in Tennessee. Elected to the mayor's position in 1962 as a Democrat,Briley served three terms from 1963 to 1975;he was prevented by term limits from running again. He had previously served as county judge of Davidson County for several terms,from 1950 to 1963.
William Edward Haslam is an American billionaire businessman and politician who served as the 49th governor of Tennessee from 2011 to 2019. A member of the Republican Party,Haslam previously served as the 67th mayor of Knoxville,Tennessee.
The 5th congressional district of Tennessee is a congressional district in Middle Tennessee. It has been represented by Republican Andy Ogles since January 2023.
The Metropolitan Council is the legislative body of the consolidated city-county government of Nashville,Tennessee and Davidson County.
Cornelia Anne Clark was an American attorney and jurist who served as a justice of the Tennessee Supreme Court from 2005 until her death in 2021.
Clifton David Briley is an American politician. A Democrat,he was the eighth mayor of Metropolitan Nashville and Davidson County. He was elected in 2015 as vice-mayor and was sworn in as acting mayor after Megan Barry's resignation on March 6,2018. Briley went on to win the May 24 special election for the balance of Barry's term with 55% of the vote over nearly a dozen challengers,avoiding a runoff and making him the official mayor of Nashville. John Cooper defeated Briley in the 2019 Nashville mayoral election. Briley was the first native of both Nashville and Tennessee since Bill Boner in 1991 to be mayor.
Karl Foster Dean is an American politician who served as the 6th Mayor of Nashville,Tennessee from 2007 to 2015. A member of the Democratic Party,he previously served as Nashville's Director of Law under Mayor Bill Purcell from 1999 to 2007. In 1990,1994 and 1998,he was elected the city's public defender. Dean,an attorney by occupation,is currently an adjunct professor of law at Vanderbilt University Law School.
Megan Christine Barry is an American businesswoman and politician who served as the seventh mayor of the Metropolitan Government of Nashville and Davidson County from 2015 until March 6,2018,when she resigned after pleading guilty to felony theft related to an extramarital affair with a city employee who had served as the head of her security detail. Barry is a member of the Democratic Party.
Jeffrey S. Bivins is a justice of the Tennessee Supreme Court. He was appointed as a justice of the court by Governor Bill Haslam.
The 2015 Nashville mayoral election took place on August 6,2015,to elect the next mayor of Nashville,Tennessee. Incumbent Democratic Mayor Karl Dean was term limited and could not run for re-election to a third term in office. Since there was no candidate that received a majority of votes in the initial round of the election,a runoff election was held. In the runoff election,Democratic candidate Megan Barry was elected with 54.8% of the vote,defeating Republican Candidate David Fox.
Manish Kumar Sethi is an American physician and former political candidate. He is the president and founder of the non-profit Healthy Tennessee and an orthopedic trauma surgeon at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. Sethi serves as the Director of the Vanderbilt Orthopedic Institute Center for Health Policy and is the lead author of the books An Introduction to Health Policy and Orthopedic Traumatology:An Evidence Based Approach.
John Cooper is an American businessman who was the mayor of Nashville,Tennessee from 2019 to 2023. He served as a councilman at-large on the Metropolitan Council of Nashville and Davidson County from 2015 until 2019. A member of the Democratic Party,he is the brother of former U.S. representative Jim Cooper,who represented Tennessee's 5th congressional district,which was also based in Nashville. He is also the son of former governor and U.S. Ambassador to Peru Prentice Cooper.
The 2007 Nashville mayoral election took place on August 2,2007,to elect the next mayor of Nashville,Tennessee. Incumbent Democratic Mayor Bill Purcell was term limited and could not run for re-election to a third term in office. Since there was no candidate that received a majority of votes in the initial round of the election,a runoff election was held. In the runoff election,Democratic candidate Karl Dean was elected with 52.1% of the vote,narrowly defeating Democrat Bob Clement.
